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 4:15For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Gal 3:10–13For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 7:5–13For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
• John 8:24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
• Rom 5:12–13Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
• John 8:21Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”
• Rom 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• Rom 5:15But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Rom 5:17For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
• Heb 9:27Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
• Ps 90:3–11You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
• Gen 3:17–19To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

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