Bible Gateway passage: 1 Corinthians 15:51-58, 1 Peter 1:3-9 - New International Version (2025)

⁵¹Listen, I tell you a mystery:^(A) We will not all sleep,^(B) but we will all be changed^(C)— ⁵²in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,^(D) the dead^(E) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³For the perishable^(F) must clothe itself with the imperishable,^(G) and the mortal with immortality. ⁵⁴When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”^[a](H)

⁵⁵“Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”^[b](I)

⁵⁶The sting of death is sin,^(J) and the power of sin is the law.^{(K) 57}But thanks be to God!^(L) He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.^(M)

⁵⁸Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord,^(N) because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.^(O)

Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 15:54 Isaiah 25:8
2. 1 Corinthians 15:55 Hosea 13:14

Cross references

1. 1 Corinthians 15:51 : 1Co 13:2; 14:2
2. 1 Corinthians 15:51 : S Mt 9:24
3. 1 Corinthians 15:51 : 2Co 5:4; Php 3:21
4. 1 Corinthians 15:52 : S Mt 24:31
5. 1 Corinthians 15:52 : Jn 5:25
6. 1 Corinthians 15:53 : ver 42, 50, 54
7. 1 Corinthians 15:53 : 2Co 5:2, 4
8. 1 Corinthians 15:54 : Isa 25:8; Heb 2:14; Rev 20:14
9. 1 Corinthians 15:55 : Hos 13:14
10. 1 Corinthians 15:56 : S Ro 5:12
11. 1 Corinthians 15:56 : S Ro 4:15
12. 1 Corinthians 15:57 : S 2Co 2:14
13. 1 Corinthians 15:57 : Ro 8:37; Heb 2:14, 15
14. 1 Corinthians 15:58 : 1Co 16:10
15. 1 Corinthians 15:58 : Isa 65:23

Praise to God for a Living Hope

³Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!^(A) In his great mercy^(B) he has given us new birth^(C) into a living hope^(D) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,^{(E) 4}and into an inheritance^(F) that can never perish, spoil or fade.^(G) This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,^{(H) 5}who through faith are shielded by God’s power^(I) until the coming of the salvation^(J) that is ready to be revealed^(K) in the last time. ⁶In all this you greatly rejoice,^(L) though now for a little while^(M) you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.^{(N) 7}These have come so that the proven genuineness^(O) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire^(P)—may result in praise, glory and honor^(Q) when Jesus Christ is revealed.^{(R) 8}Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him^(S) and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, ⁹for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.^(T)

Cross references

1. 1 Peter 1:3 : 2Co 1:3; Eph 1:3
2. 1 Peter 1:3 : Tit 3:5
3. 1 Peter 1:3 : ver 23; S Jn 1:13
4. 1 Peter 1:3 : ver 13, 21; S Heb 3:6
5. 1 Peter 1:3 : 1Co 15:20; 1Pe 3:21
6. 1 Peter 1:4 : S Ac 20:32; S Ro 8:17
7. 1 Peter 1:4 : 1Pe 5:4
8. 1 Peter 1:4 : Col 1:5; 2Ti 4:8
9. 1 Peter 1:5 : 1Sa 2:9; Jn 10:28
10. 1 Peter 1:5 : S Ro 11:14
11. 1 Peter 1:5 : S Ro 8:18
12. 1 Peter 1:6 : Ro 5:2
13. 1 Peter 1:6 : 1Pe 5:10
14. 1 Peter 1:6 : Jas 1:2; 1Pe 4:12
15. 1 Peter 1:7 : Jas 1:3
16. 1 Peter 1:7 : Job 23:10; Ps 66:10; Pr 17:3; Isa 48:10
17. 1 Peter 1:7 : 2Co 4:17
18. 1 Peter 1:7 : ver 13; S 1Th 2:19; 1Pe 4:13
19. 1 Peter 1:8 : Jn 20:29
20. 1 Peter 1:9 : Ro 6:22