1 Corinthians 15:55
Good News Translation
"Where, Death, is your victory? Where, Death, is your power to hurt?"

New Revised Standard Version
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

Contemporary English Version
Where is its victory? Where is its sting?"

New American Bible
Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

O death.

Hosea 13:14 I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

sting.

Acts 9:5 Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

Revelation 9:10 And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them

*Gr:

grave.

Luke 16:23 And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom:

Acts 2:27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell: nor suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

Revelation 20:13,14 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it: and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them. And they were judged, every one according to their works. . . .

*Gr:

is thy victory.

Job 18:13,14 Let it devour the beauty of his skin, let the firstborn death consume his arms. . . .

Psalm 49:8-15 Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever, . . .

Psalm 89:48 Who is the man that shall live, and not see death: that shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell?

Ecclesiastes 2:15,16 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity. . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:19 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 9:5,6 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. . . .

Romans 5:14 But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

Context
Where, O Death, is Your Victory?
54And when this mortal hath put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory. 55O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? 56Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.…
Cross References
Hosea 13:14
I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

1 Corinthians 15:56
Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

1 Corinthians 15:54
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