1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death - The sting which death bears; that with which he effects his purpose; that which is made use of to inflict death; or that which is the cause of death. There would be no death…

The sting of death is sin - The apostle explains himself particularly here: death could not have entered into the world if sin had not entered first; it was sin that not only introduced death, but has…

To confirm what he had said of this change,

I. He here tells them what had been concealed from or unknown to them till then - that all the saints would not die, but all would be changed. Those that…

the strength of sin is the law That the sting of death should be sin is very easy to understand. It is not so easy at first sight to account for the introduction here of St Paul's favourite doctrine…