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1 Cor. 15:55 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Od death, where is thy sting? O βgrave, where is thy victory?

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Heb. 13:14• ¹⁴For here we have not an abiding city, but we seek after the coming one. (Heb. 13:14)

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or, hell.

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O death.

Hos. 13:14• ¹⁴{i}I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death: where, O death, are thy plagues? where, O Sheol, is thy destruction? Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.{/i} (Hos. 13:14)

sting.

Acts 9:5• ⁵And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he [said], I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest; (Acts 9:5)

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Rev. 9:10• ¹⁰And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails was their power to hurt men five months. (Rev. 9:10)

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Rev. 9• (Rev. 9)

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grave.

or, hell.

Luke 16:23• ²³And in Hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (Luke 16:23)

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Acts 2:27• ²⁷because thou wilt not leave my soul to hades nor give thy Holy One to see corruption. (Acts 2:27)

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Rev. 20:13‑14• ¹³And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and hades gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged each according to their works.
¹⁴And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:13‑14)

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Rev. 20• (Rev. 20)

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is thy victory.

Job 18:13‑14• ¹³The first-born of death devoureth the parts of his skin —{HR}Devoureth his parts.
¹⁴His confidence shall be torn out of his tent,{HR}And shall march him off to the king of terrors; (Job 18:13‑14)

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Psa. 49:8‑15• ⁸(But the redemption-price of their soul [is] precious,{HR}And it hath ceased forever),
⁹That he should still live forever{HR}And not see corruption.
¹⁰For he seeth [that] wise men die;{HR}Together the fool and the brutish man perish{HR}And have left to others their wealth.
¹¹Their inward thought [is] their houses [shall be] forever,{HR}Their dwelling-places to generation and generation;{HR}They have called the lands by their names.
¹²But man in honour abideth not;{HR}He hath become like the cattle,{HR}They have been cut off.
¹³This their way [is] folly for them;{HR}Yet those who come after them will take pleasure in their words. Selah.
¹⁴Like sheep they are laid in Sheol;{HR}Death feedeth on them,{HR}And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;{HR}But their form consumeth in the grave,{HR}From their dwelling [consigned] to it.
¹⁵Surely God will redeem my soul from the hand of Sheol,{HR}For he will receive me. Selah. (Psa. 49:8‑15)

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Psa. 89:48• ⁴⁸What man (geber) liveth and shall not see death?{HR}Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah. (Psa. 89:48)

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Eccl. 2:15‑16• ¹⁵Then said I in my heart,{HR}As it happeneth to the fool,{HR}So will it happen even to me;{HR}And why was I then more wise?{HR}Then I said in my heart,{HR}That this also [was] vanity.
¹⁶For of the wise man, even as of the fool,{HR}[There is] no remembrance forever;{HR}Seeing that in the days to come{HR}All will have been already forgotten.{HR}And how doth the wise man die even as the fool! (Eccl. 2:15‑16)

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Eccl. 3:19• ¹⁹For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts;{HR}Even one thing befalleth them:{HR}As the one dieth, so dieth the other;{HR}Yea, they have all one breath;{HR}And man hath no pre-eminence above the beasts:{HR}For all is vanity. (Eccl. 3:19)

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Eccl. 8:8• ⁸There is no man that hath power over the day of death;{HR}And there is no discharge in that war:{HR}Neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it. (Eccl. 8:8)

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Eccl. 9:5‑6• ⁵For the living know that they shall die:{HR}But the dead know not anything,{HR}Neither have they anymore a reward,{HR}For the memory of them is forgotten.
⁶As well their love, as their hatred{HR}And their envy, is now perished;{HR}Neither have they any more a portion forever{HR}In anything that is done under the sun. (Eccl. 9:5‑6)

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Rom. 5:14• ¹⁴but death reigned from Adam till Moses even over those that had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a figure of the coming [one]. (Rom. 5:14)

• {Hos. 13:14} It is sin which gives not only occasion, but its sting, to death; and the law, however righteous, could work no deliverance for the guilty, but proves in effect the strength of sin, by provoking its rebellious will so much the more against the commands of God. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 15:50-58” by W. Kelly)

• It is a two-fold “victory.”“Death” which has claimed the body, and “Hades” which has held the disembodied spirits of the saints, will succumb to Christ’s victory. (“9) Failure to Maintain Sound Doctrine” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Where, O death, is thy sting? where, O death, thy victoryf?

JND Translation Notes

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See Hos. 13.14.

W. Kelly Translation

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Where, death, [is] thy victorya? where, deathb, thy sting?

WK Translation Notes

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a

Many MSS. support this order of words ("victory" and "sting"), contrary to the reading of T. R.

b

It correctly reads twice, "where, death," contrary to the T. R. which has "grave" or "hades" the second time.