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54 Death, you have lost the battle. Death, your power to hurt us is gone.'

55 Death hurts us because we are bad people. And our wrong ways are so strong because of the law.

56 But I thank God that he gives us power to stop being wrong through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[a](A)

55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”[b](B)

56 The sting of death is sin,(C) and the power of sin is the law.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:54 Isaiah 25:8
  2. 1 Corinthians 15:55 Hosea 13:14