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1 Corinthians 15:55-57
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55 Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”(A)

56 The sting of death is sin,[a] and the power of sin is the law.(B) 57 But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 15:56 The sting of death is sin: an explanation of Hosea’s metaphor. Death, scorpion-like, is equipped with a sting, sin, by which it injects its poison. Christ defeats sin, the cause of death (Gn 3:19; Rom 5:12).
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