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Where, O Death, is your sting

Hosea heard God promise to ransom His people from the grave and taunt death itself. Paul turns the taunt into the church's song of victory through Jesus Christ.

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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.

Old TestamentHosea 13:14Open this record
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New Testament1 Corinthians 15:55Open this record

Read the earlier witness

“I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. Where, O death, are your plagues? Where, O grave, is your destruction? “I will have no compassion,
Hosea 13:14 New International Version (NIV)The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Read the later witness

“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?”
1 Corinthians 15:55 New International Version (NIV)The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

Why FaithGraph draws this line

1 Corinthians 15:55 quotes Hosea 13:14.

Paul takes up Hosea's taunt against death and the grave.

Evidence

The explanation above is FaithGraph editorial content, not Scripture.