1 Corinthians 15:56
New International Version
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

New Living Translation
For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power.

English Standard Version
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Berean Standard Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Berean Literal Bible
Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law.

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

New King James Version
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

New American Standard Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law;

NASB 1995
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

NASB 1977
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;

Amplified Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin [by which it brings death] is the law;

Christian Standard Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now 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:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But the sting of death is sin and the power of sin is The Written Law.

Contemporary English Version
Sin is what gives death its sting, and the Law is the power behind sin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

English Revised Version
The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Sin gives death its sting, and God's standards give sin its power.

Good News Translation
Death gets its power to hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law.

International Standard Version
Now death's stinger is sin, and sin's power is the Law.

Literal Standard Version
And the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the Law;

Majority Standard Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

New American Bible
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 Revised Standard Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

World English Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Young's Literal Translation
and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Where, O Death, is Your Victory?
55“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!…

Cross References
Romans 3:20
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Romans 4:15
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

Romans 7:8
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.


Treasury of Scripture

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

sting.

Genesis 3:17-19
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; …

Psalm 90:3-11
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men…

Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

the strength.

Romans 3:19,20
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God…

Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Romans 5:13,20
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law…

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1 Corinthians 15
1. By Christ's resurrection,
12. he proves the necessity of our resurrection,
16. against all such as deny the resurrection of the body.
21. The fruit,
35. and the manner thereof;
51. and of the resurrection of those who shall be found alive at the last day.














(56) The sting of death is sin.--Death is pictured as a monster, and it is armed with a sting. Its sting is sin. If there were no sin, death would not be capable of inflicting pain, and the strength of sin springs from the fact that it is the violation of God's law. (See this thought fully brought out, Romans 5:12; Romans 7:7.)

Verse 56. - The sting of death is sin. Because death is the wages of sin (Romans 6:23). Death is represented as a venomous serpent. The strength of sin is the Law. The best comment on this expression is to be found in the Epistle to the Romans; see especially Romans 4:15; Romans 7:10-12. It must be admitted that this passing allusion to a distinct doctrine does not seem, at first sight, to harmonize with the glorious unity of the subject. No one can read it without a slight sense of jar, because it seems to introduce the element of dogmatic controversy. But this sense of incongruity is removed when we remember how intensely St. Paul felt that man is confronted with the horror of a broken Law, which at once reminds him of a Being infinitely holy, and of his own self condemnation (Romans 7; 2 Corinthians 3.). It is the sense that the Law in its deathful aspect is annulled, and the sinful soul delivered, which prompts the outburst of the next verse.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
The
Τὸ (To)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

sting
κέντρον (kentron)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 2759: A sting, goad; met: of death. From kenteo; a point, i.e. A sting or goad.

of death [is]
θανάτου (thanatou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2288: Death, physical or spiritual. From thnesko; death.

sin,
ἁμαρτία (hamartia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

the
(hē)
Article - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

power
δύναμις (dynamis)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1411: From dunamai; force; specially, miraculous power.

of sin
ἁμαρτίας (hamartias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

[is] the
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Law.
νόμος (nomos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.


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