Parallel Verses
Daniel Mace New Testament
the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law.
New American Standard Bible
The sting of
King James Version
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Holman Bible
and the power of sin
International Standard Version
Now death's stinger is sin, and sin's power is the Law.
A Conservative Version
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
American Standard Version
The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
Amplified
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin [by which it brings death] is the law;
An Understandable Version
The [harmful] sting that causes [physical] death is sin [See Rom. 5:12]; and the power of sin [to do this] comes from the law. [See Rom. 8:2].
Anderson New Testament
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Bible in Basic English
The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
Common New Testament
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Darby Translation
Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law;
Godbey New Testament
But the sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law.
John Wesley New Testament
But thanks be to God,
Julia Smith Translation
And the sting of death sin; and the power of sin the law.
King James 2000
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin [is] the law.
Modern King James verseion
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is the law.
Montgomery New Testament
Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law.
NET Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
New Heart English Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Noyes New Testament
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the Law.
Sawyer New Testament
And the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;
The Emphasized Bible
Now, the sting of death, is, sin, and, the power of sin, is, the law; -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Twentieth Century New Testament
It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power.
Webster
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Weymouth New Testament
Now sin is the sting of death, and sin derives its power from the Law;
Williams New Testament
Now sin gives death its sting, and the law gives sin its power.
World English Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
Worrell New Testament
The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
Worsley New Testament
the sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law:
Youngs Literal Translation
and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;
Themes
Change » The lord changing believers
Corruption » Who shall be delivered from corruption
Resurrection » God resurrecting the dead
Sin » Described as » The sting of death
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Word Count of 36 Translations in 1 Corinthians 15:56
Images 1 Corinthians 15:56
Prayers for 1 Corinthians 15:56
Verse Info
Context Readings
Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body
55 "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" 56 the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was the law. 57 but thanks be to God, who has given us the victory, thro' our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Cross References
Romans 4:15
because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.
John 8:21
Jesus therefore repeated what he had said, "I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your incredulity, so that whither I go, ye cannot come."
John 8:24
therefore I said to you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if you don't believe me to be what I am, ye shall die in your sins.
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God.
Romans 5:12-13
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, so death by this sin; and thereby death passed upon all men, who all by his means became mortal.
Romans 5:15
the type of him that was to come: but yet the damage of the fall does not exactly correspond to the advantages of the divine favour: for tho' through the fall of one, mankind became mortal, yet this is greatly over-ballanced by the favour and bounty of God, in the benevolence of one man, Jesus Christ, to all mankind.
Romans 5:17
for tho' death reigned thro' the single offence of one, they who receive the most valuable favour, even the gift of righteousness, shall much more easily reign by the life of one, even Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:20
the law was introduc'd, that the greatness of the fall might fully appear; but the more sin display'd its enormity, the divine favour was so much the more transcendent.
Romans 6:23
for the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:5-13
for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.
Galatians 3:10-13
but they that rest themselves upon the works of the law, are obnoxious to the curse: for it is written, " cursed is every one, who continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them:"
Hebrews 9:27
as then it is appointed that men should die but once, after which the judgment ensues;