Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

King James Version

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Holman Bible

Now the sting of death is sin,
and the power of sin is the law.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
κέντρον 
Kentron 
Usage: 3

of death
θάνατος 
Thanatos 
Usage: 100

is sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

the strength
δύναμις 
Dunamis 
Usage: 95

of sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Corinthians 15:56

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Images 1 Corinthians 15:56

Context Readings

Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body

55 O death, where is your sting (power to hurt)? O grave, where is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 57 But thanks to God, because he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Cross References

Romans 4:15

The law produces wrath (violent passion) (indignation). But where there is no law there is no sin.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.

Genesis 3:17-19

He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Psalm 90:3-11

You turn men back into dust and say: Return, O sons of men!

John 8:21

He said: I go away. You will seek me and will die in your sin. You cannot come where I go.

John 8:24

I said to you that you would die in your sins. Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins!

Romans 3:19-20

We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment.

Romans 5:12-13

Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.

Romans 5:15

But the two are not the same, because God's gift (spiritual endowment) is not like Adam's sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God's grace is much greater, and so is his gift to so many people through the loving-kindness of the one man, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:17

It was by the transgression of the one that death ruled as king through that one. Even more so shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness, rule as kings in life by the one, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:20

The law came that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased God's loving kindness increased even more.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 7:5-13

When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Galatians 3:10-13

Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them.

Hebrews 9:27

It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:

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