Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
O death
Is thy victory
General references
Bible References
O death
Hosea 13:14
"From the power of Sheol I will rescue them, from death I will redeem them. Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? My eyes will remain closed to your pleas for compassion.
Is thy victory
Job 18:13
Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs.
Psalm 49:8
for it would cost too much to redeem his life, and the payments would go on forever
Psalm 89:48
What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude
Ecclesiastes 2:15
Then I told myself, "Whatever happens to the fool will happen also to me. Therefore what's the point in being so wise?" And I told myself that this also is pointless.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For what happens to people also happens to animals a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.
Romans 5:14
Nevertheless, death ruled from the time of Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the same way Adam did when he disobeyed. He is a foreshadowing of the one who would come.
General references
1 Corinthians 15:26
The last enemy to be done away with is death,