Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is 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.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the sting of death was sin; and the strength of sin was 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.
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 "Death where is thy sting? Hell where is thy victory?" 56 The sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be unto God, which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Cross References
Romans 4:15
Because the law causeth wrath. For where no law is, there is no transgression.
Proverbs 14:32
The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.
Genesis 3:17-19
And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life:
Psalm 90:3-11
Thou turnest man to destruction; Again, thou sayest, "Come again, ye children of men."
John 8:21
Then said Jesus again unto them, "I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins. Whither I go thither can ye not come."
John 8:24
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins. For except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins."
Romans 3:19-20
Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,
Romans 5:12-13
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by the means of sin; And so death went over all men, insomuch that all men sinned.
Romans 5:15
But the gift is not like as the sin. For if, through the sin of one, many be dead: much more plenteous, upon many, was the grace of God and gift by grace: which grace was given by one man, Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:17
For if by the sin of one, death reigned by the means of one, much more shall they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life by the means of one; that is to say, Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:20
But the law, in the meantime, entered in that sin should increase. Neverthelater, where abundance of sin was, there was more plenteousness of grace.
Romans 6:23
For the reward of sin is death: but eternal life is the gift of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:5-13
For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
Galatians 3:10-13
For as many as are under the deeds of the law, are under malediction. For it is written, "Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them."
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,