This translation is from the New American Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Greek meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided in blue immediately below the scriptural text.
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When this which is corruptible clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal clothes itself with immortality, then the word that is written shall come about:
Death is swallowed up in victory.
Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
corruptible = φθαρτός = phthartos Blue Letter Bible perishing, perishable; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon destructible, perishable
clothes itself = ἐνδύω = endyō Blue Letter Bible clothe, wear; to sink into (clothing), clothe one's self; array, endue; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon to go into; assume the person of; to enter, to press into; clothe
incorruptibility = ἀφθαρσία = aphtharsia Blue Letter Bible purity, sincerity, incorrupt; genuineness, sincerity; a condition associated with glory and honor and life, including perhaps a moral significance; perpetuity; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon integrity, sincerity; incorruption, immortality
mortal = θνητός = thnētos Blue Letter Bible liable to death, mortal; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon liable to death, mortal; befitting mortals, human
immortality = ἀθανασία = athanasia Blue Letter Bible deathlessness; undying, immortality, everlasting
victory = νῖκος = nikos Blue Letter Bible to utterly vanquish; conquest, triumph
firm = ἑδραῖος = hedraios Blue Letter Bible steadfast; metaphorical of moral fixity; firm, immovable; settled; sitting, sedentary; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon steady, steadfast; permanently appointed; sitting, sedentary
steadfast = ἀμετακίνητος = ametakinētos Blue Letter Bible firm, immoveable, unmovable; not to be moved from its place, unmoved; metaph. firmly persistent; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon not to be moved from place to place, immovable; unmoved
always = πάντοτε = pantote Blue Letter Bible at all times; evermore
fully devoted = περισσεύω = perisseuō Blue Letter Bible Abundance, Abundant, Abundantly, Abound; exceeding a certain number, or measure, to be over; superfluity; to be pre-eminent, to excel; to make to abound; to be more than enough, to be pre-eminent, superior; to be over and above; remain; to exist or be at hand in abundance; a thing which comes in abundance, or overflows unto one, something falls to the lot of one in large measure; to be in affluence; to furnish one richly; to make excellent; to superabound; to cause to excel; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon to be over and above; to be more than enough, remain over; abundance; to be superfluous; more than enough of; to be better than; abound more and more; make to abound; make longer
work = ἔργον = ergon Blue Letter Bible work, employment, task; business, employment, that which any one is occupied; that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking; to work; toil (as an effort or occupation); any product whatever, anything accomplished by hand, art, industry, mind; a benefaction; what harmonizes with the order of society, a good deed, noble action; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon works of industry; tillage, tilled lands; occupations; deed, action; that which is wrought or made, work; result of work, profit or interest; business; hard work, difficult to do
labor = κόπος = kopos Blue Letter Bible a striking, beating; toil resulting in weariness, laborious toil, trouble; labor, trouble, toil; intense labour united with trouble and toil; the labor to which love prompts, and which voluntarily assumes and endures trouble and pains for others; that which such toil in teaching accomplishes; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon striking, beating; toil and trouble, suffering; fatigue, weariness; work, exertion
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