Cross references

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

1 Corinthians 15:56 BSB

1 Corinthians 15:56 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 4:15 (17 votes) and Galatians 3:10–13 (14 votes). 28 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 2 to Revelation 21.

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Which verses does 1 Corinthians 15:56 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Romans 4:1517 votes

    because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  2. All 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.” Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” …

  3. Romans 6:2311 votes

    For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  4. For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. …

  5. John 8:249 votes

    That 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.”

  6. Therefore, 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. For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

  7. John 8:215 votes

    Again 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.”

  8. The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

  9. Now 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. Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

  10. But 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!

Which verses point to 1 Corinthians 15:56?

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