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Where, O Death, Is Your Victory?

1 Corinthians 15:55

In 9 translations

BSB
“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”Hosea 13:14 (see also LXX); BYZ and TR “Where, O Death, is your sting? Where, O Hades, is your victory?”
KJV
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
WEB
“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”or, Hell
ASV
O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
LSV
Where, O Death, your sting? Where, O Death [[or Hades]], your victory?”
YLT
where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'
DBY
Where, O death, [is] thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?
DRC
O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
GNV
O death where is thy sting? O graue where is thy victorie?

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read θάνατε (“O death”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ᾍδη (“O Hades”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
  • Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place νῖκος elsewhere in this verse.
  • Word order: Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place κέντρον elsewhere in this verse.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: νῖκος ποῦ σου θάνατε τὸ κέντρον. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read νῖκος ποῦ σου θάνατε τὸ κέντρον; Robinson–Pierpont read κέντρον Ποῦ σου ᾍδη τὸ νῖκος.

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Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ποῦ σου, θάνατε, τὸ νῖκος; ποῦ σου, θάνατε, τὸ κέντρον;
RP2018
Ποῦ σου, Θάνατε, τὸ κέντρον; Ποῦ σου, ᾍδη, τὸ νῖκος;
TR-Boyd
Ποῦ σου, Θάνατε, τὸ κέντρον; Ποῦ σου, ᾍδη, τὸ νῖκος;
SCR1894
που σου θανατε το κεντρον που σου αδη το νικος

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Hosea 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
  • Psalms 89:48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
  • Romans 5:14Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
  • Acts 2:27because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
  • Psalms 49:8–15For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice, that he should live on forever and not see decay. For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave…
  • Ecclesiastes 2:15–16So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile. For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the…
  • Acts 9:5“Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.
  • Revelation 20:13–14The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
  • Ecclesiastes 9:5–6For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten. Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never…
  • Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
  • Luke 16:23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:19For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
  • Job 18:13–14It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs. He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
  • Revelation 9:10They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.

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