📖WEB · 1 Corinthians 15:56
What does 1 Corinthians 15:56 mean?
"The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law."
— 1 Corinthians 15:56 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For this perishable body must become imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”
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, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Explanation
Paul writes these words as part of the climactic argument of 1 Corinthians 15, the great chapter on the resurrection of the dead. In
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