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1 Corinthians 15:55The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
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ποῦ σου, θάνατε, τὸ νῖκος; ποῦ σου, θάνατε, τὸ κέντρον;
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1 Corinthians 15:55The Bible in Living English
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55 “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” Where is your victory, death? where is your sting, death?
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1 Corinthians 15:55American Standard Version
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55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
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1 Corinthians 15:55The Emphasized Bible
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55 Where, O death, is thy victory? Where, O death, is thy sting?
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1 Corinthians 15:55King James Version
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55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
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1 Corinthians Study Notes—Chapter 15New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
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“Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?”: Paul here quotes Ho 13:14. Hosea’s prophecy was not indicating that those disobedient Israelites would be resurrected from the dead at that time. However, Paul’s application of Ho 13:14 shows that this prophecy was pointing to the time when the dead would be raised to life and the Grave (Sheol, or Hades) would be made powerless. Paul’s quotation is, in part, from the Septuagint, which reads: “Where is your penalty [or “punishment”], O death? O Hades, where is your sting?” By using these rhetorical questions addressed to enemy Death (1Co 15:25, 26), Paul, in effect, is saying: “Death, you will not be victorious again! Death, your sting has no effect anymore!”
sting: The Greek word kenʹtron can refer to a sting of an animal, like that of a scorpion. It is used at Re 9:10, where the symbolic locusts are described as having “tails with stingers like scorpions.” Here at 1Co 15:55, the term is used figuratively of the pain and suffering caused to millions of humans by the enemy death. (1Co 15:26) Just as a scorpion deprived of its stinger cannot sting, death will not have power over spirit-anointed ones who have been resurrected to inherit God’s Kingdom and have gained immortality. (1Co 15:57; Re 20:6) During the Thousand Year Reign of Christ, God will completely do away with the sting of Adamic death when millions are resurrected and death is figuratively hurled into “the lake of fire.”—Re 20:12-14; 21:4; Joh 5:28, 29.
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