1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. It matters because it explains why death holds power and points to the need for Christ.

Cross-references · 15

• Rom 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
• Gal 3:10–13All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 7:5–13For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
• John 8:24That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
• Rom 5:12–13Therefore, 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.
• John 8:21Again He said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for Me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
• Rom 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• Rom 5:15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
• Rom 5:17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
• Heb 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
• Ps 90:3–11You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
• Gen 3:17–19And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
• Prov 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

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