1 Corinthians 15:55-57

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:56

'The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.' He visualises death as like a vicious insect or scorpion with its poisonous sting. And what was death’s sting? It was sin. Once man had sinned, he was sentenced to death. And subsequently all men sinned, and therefore all died. All were stung by sin. And it continues so to be. But then One came Who had not sinned, and yet He too was sentenced to death. He too died. And in that was Satan’s error. For He Who died bore the sin of all... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:57

'But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory continually (present tense) through our Lord Jesus Christ.' But now all is changed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, and His death and resurrection we are delivered. We are being given victory continually, victory over sin now, and finally the victory over death that Christ has accomplished. When the Law condemns us we point it to Jesus Christ. ‘You have sinned,’ thunders the Law. ‘Christ died for our sins,’ we reply, ‘and the sting of death has... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:50-58

1 Corinthians 15:50-Hebrews : . A new question is now introduced, What will happen to those who are alive when Christ returns? ( cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-Esther :). The principle that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God finds with them as with the dead its illustration. They will not all die, but all alike will be transformed instantaneously when the last trump ( 1 Thessalonians 4:16, Matthew 24:31, Revelation 11:15) sounds. The dead will be raised incorruptible, those still... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:55

The apostle, in the contemplation of this blessed day, triumpheth over death, in a metaphorical phrase: Where is thy sting? What hurt canst thou now do unto believers, more than a wasp, or hornet, or bee, that hath lost its sting? O grave, or O hell, (the same word signifieth both), where now is thy victory? The conqueror of all flesh is now conquered, the spoiler of all men is spoiled; it had got a victory, but now, O death, where is thy victory? read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin; if it were not for sin, death could have no power over man; sin is that which giveth death a power to hurt the children of men: The wages of sin is death, Romans 6:23. And the strength of sin is the law; and without the law there could be no transgression. The law is so far from taking away the guilt of sin, that, through the corruption of our natures, strongly inclining us to what is forbidden, it addeth strength to sin; sin (as the apostle saith, Romans 7:8) taking... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:57

The victory over sin and over death, we have both through the death and the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ; who by his death both delivered us from the guilt of sin, and also from the power of sin; and who through death destroyed him who had the power of death, even the devil. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

CRITICAL NOTES1 Corinthians 15:35.—(1) Emphasis on “the dead,—the DEAD!—the DEAD!” (2) “With what (kind of) body?” See Homiletic Analysis.1 Corinthians 15:36.—Emphasis on “thou” (so R.V.); answers (1). (John 12:24)1 Corinthians 15:37.—(2) is answered in 1 Corinthians 15:37-54. Not the body that shall be.—I.e., as the argument requires, quâ its physical constitution; “not the (kind of) body that,” etc. Bare.—I.e. “naked”; “a grain not yet clothed with that body that shall be” (Ellicott), 2... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:55

1 Corinthians 15:55 , 1 Corinthians 15:56 . The Triumph over Death. I. The most remarkable feature of the triumph over death is the acknowledgment of death's victory and of the manner of it. The triumph is thus seen to be a triumph of a humbling and mortifying character. The triumphal song is chiefly occupied with a recognition of death's unworthy conquest, now happily and gloriously reversed. A sting and a victory belonged to him once, but where are they now? Death, then, has a victory. He... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:56

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:57

1 Corinthians 15:57 St. Paul speaks in this chapter as if the resurrection of Christ were the victory over the grave. Was it impossible then, for men, before the resurrection of Christ, to look beyond the grave? I. The apostles unquestionably speak of our Lord's resurrection as an unprecedented fact in the world's history. But they say that its importance to human beings lay in this, that it declared Jesus to be the Son of God with power. It was an act retrospective and prospective. It revealed... read more

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