1 Corinthians 15:55 BSB

1 Corinthians 15:55

“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

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Commentary

1 voice

Tertullian

On the Resurrection of the Flesh (220)

Now, if the dominion of death operates only in the dissolution of the flesh, in like manner death's contrary, life, ought to produce the contrary effect, even the restoration of the flesh; so that, just as death had swallowed it up in its strength, it also, after this mortal was swallowed up of immortality, may hear the challenge pronounced against it: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? " For in this way "grace shall there much more abound, where sin once abounded.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

O hades, the receptacle of separate souls, where is thy victory - Thou art now robbed of all thy spoils; all thy captives are set at liberty. Hades literally means the invisible world, and relates to the soul; death, to the body. The Greek words are found in the Septuagint translation of Hosea xiii, 14.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

“O death.” This triumphant exclamation is the commencement of the fourth division of the chapter, the practical consequences of the doctrine. It is such an exclamation as every man with right feelings will be disposed to make, who contemplates the ravages of death; who looks upon a world where in all forms he has reigned, and who then contemplates the glorious truth, that a complete and final triumph has been obtained over this great enemy of the happiness of man, and that man would die no more.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ποῦ	pou	Where	G4226 →
σου,	sou	of you,	G4771 →
θάνατε,	thanate	O death,	G2288 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
νῖκος;	nikos	victory	G3534 →
ποῦ	pou	Where	G4226 →
σου,	sou	of you,	G4771 →
θάνατε,	thanate	O death,	G2288 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
κέντρον;	kentron	sting	G2759 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 2:27
because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
leads to
- Psalms 16:10
  For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Acts 2:31
  Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.
Through
Hosea 13:14
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
leads to
- Psalms 49:15
  But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 25:8
  He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
- 1 Corinthians 15:52–57
  in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
- Revelation 21:4
  ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
- Isaiah 26:19
  Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her…
Through
Psalms 89:48
What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 9:5
  For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.