1st Corinthians Chapter 15 verse 56 Holy Bible
The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
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The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
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Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law;
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The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
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The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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and the sting of the death `is' the sin, and the power of the sin the law;
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1st Corinthians 15 : 56 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 56. - The sting of death is sin. Because death is the wages of sin (Romans 6:23). Death is represented as a venomous serpent. The strength of sin is the Law. The best comment on this expression is to be found in the Epistle to the Romans; see especially Romans 4:15; Romans 7:10-12. It must be admitted that this passing allusion to a distinct doctrine does not seem, at first sight, to harmonize with the glorious unity of the subject. No one can read it without a slight sense of jar, because it seems to introduce the element of dogmatic controversy. But this sense of incongruity is removed when we remember how intensely St. Paul felt that man is confronted with the horror of a broken Law, which at once reminds him of a Being infinitely holy, and of his own self condemnation (Romans 7; 2 Corinthians 3.). It is the sense that the Law in its deathful aspect is annulled, and the sinful soul delivered, which prompts the outburst of the next verse.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(56) The sting of death is sin.--Death is pictured as a monster, and it is armed with a sting. Its sting is sin. If there were no sin, death would not be capable of inflicting pain, and the strength of sin springs from the fact that it is the violation of God's law. (See this thought fully brought out, Romans 5:12; Romans 7:7.)