1 Corinthians 15:54-56
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
54 [a]And 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:(A)
“Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”(B)
56 The sting of death is sin,[b] and the power of sin is the law.(C)
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- 15:54–55 Death is swallowed up in victory: scripture itself predicts death’s overthrow. O death: in his prophetic vision Paul may be making Hosea’s words his own, or imagining this cry of triumph on the lips of the risen church.
- 15:56 The sting of death is sin: an explanation of Hosea’s metaphor. Death, scorpion-like, is equipped with a sting, sin, by which it injects its poison. Christ defeats sin, the cause of death (Gn 3:19; Rom 5:12).
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