He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord
God will wipe away tears off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall take
away from off the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it. (Isa 25:8)
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I
will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be
thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. (Hos 13:14)
And if Christ had not risen from the dead, or have
broken the bands of death that the grave should have no victory, and that death
should have no sting, there could have been no resurrection. But there is a
resurrection, therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is
swallowed up in Christ. (Mosiah 16:7, 8)
And since man had fallen he could not merit anything
of himself; but the sufferings and death of Christ atone for their sins,
through faith and repentance, and so forth; and that he breaketh the bands of
death, that the grave shall have no victory, and that the sting of death should
be swallowed up in the hopes of glory; and Aaron did expound all these things
unto the king. (Alma 22:14)
Know ye that ye must come to the knowledge of your
fathers, and repent of all your sins and iniquities, and believe in Jesus
Christ, that he is the Son of God, and that he was slain by the Jews, and by
the power of the Father he hath risen again, whereby he hath gained the victory
over the grave; and also in him is the sting of death swallowed up. (Moroni
7:5)
Further
Reading
"Chapter
14: The Personification of Death and Hell" in David E. Bokovoy and John A.
Tvedtnes, Testaments: Links Between the Book of Mormon and the Hebrew Bible
(Tooele, Utah: Heritage Distribution, 2003), pp. 79-87