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1 Corinthians 15:56 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. "
1 Corinthians 15:56
Verse in Context
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54 But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 15:1
"Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,"
1 Corinthians 15:2
"by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain."
1 Corinthians 15:3
"For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,"
1 Corinthians 15:4
"that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,"
1 Corinthians 15:5
"and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve."
1 Corinthians 15:6
"Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep."
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