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 worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
• Gal 3:10–13For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 7:5–13For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• John 8:24I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
• Rom 5:12–13Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
• John 8:21Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
• Rom 5:20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• Rom 5:15But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Rom 5:17For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
• Heb 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
• Ps 90:3–11Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
• Gen 3:17–19And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
• Prov 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

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