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Mark Dunagan Commentaries

1 Corinthians 15:55

1 Corinthians 15:55. death, where is thy victory?. death, where is thy sting?

'O death, where is thy victory?' -(Hosea 2:14) 'And then the taunting song begins.. song which righteous people have wanted to sing for. thousand generations...No more black limousines. No lines of mourners. No weeping pall-bearers. No stifled sobs. No heart-breaking goodbyes. No colorless cheeks..No death!' (McGuiggan p. 204)

'O death, where is thy sting?' -'For where now,. death, is your power to hurt us' (Phi)

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    1 CORINTHIANS 15:55 ni/koj* pou/ sou( qa,nate( to. ke,ntron* {B} Two sets of variant readings are involved, both connected with the fact that in Hosea 13:14 the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew. Th...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 55. _O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY_ _VICTORY?_] Που σου, Θανατε, το κεντρον· που σου, ᾁδη, το νικος· These words are generally supposed to be taken from Hosea 13:14, wher...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    “O death.” This triumphant exclamation is the commencement of the fourth division of the chapter, the practical consequences of the doctrine. It is such an exclamation as every man with right feelings...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    III. RESURRECTION AND THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH AND CONCLUSION: Chapter S 15-16 1. Resurrection and the Hope of the Church. CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Gospel and the Resurrection of Christ. (1 Corinthians 1...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A new question is now introduced, What will happen to those who are alive when Christ returns? (_cf_. 1 Thessalonians 4:13). The principle that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God finds...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Brothers, I say this, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruption. Look now--I tell you something which only the initiated can understand. We shall...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    JESUS' RESURRECTION AND OURS (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 is both one of the greatest and one of the most difficult Chapter s in the New Testament. Not only is it in itself difficult...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    STING. Greek. _kentron._ See Acts 26:14. GRAVE. Greek. _hades._ App-131. The texts read "death" (Greek. _thanatos)_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _O death, where is thy sting?_ This quotation follows neither the Septuagint nor the Hebrew of Hosea 13:14. The former is -Where is thy penalty, O death, where is thy sting, O Hades?" following, most...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΝΙ͂ΚΟΣ before ΚΈΝΤΡΟΝ אBC Vulg. They are transposed in rec. with DEFG Vetus Lat. Peshito. Rec. also reads ᾅδη for the second θάνατε with Peshito. Text אBCDEFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. Also Irenaeus, Tertullia...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    1 Corinthians 15:1-58. THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION This chapter is one of the deepest and most mysterious in the Bible. It is the one exception to the statement in ch. 3 that St Paul was unable t...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _CHANGES BROUGHT BY THE RESURRECTION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58:_ Some were asking, "How will the dead be raised to life? What kind of bodies will they have?" They were taught that changes would take plac...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΣΟΥ _gen. sing. от_ ΣΎ (G4771) ты, "твое" эмфатическое, ΘΆΝΑΤΕ (G2288) _voc. sing._ о смерть! ΝΊΚΟΣ (G3534) победа, ΚΈΝΤΡΟΝ (G2759) жало. Это слово описывает смерть как ядовитую тварь, вроде скорпио...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1995 DEATH A CONQUERED ENEMY 1 Corinthians 15:51. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last tru...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO WHEN THIS CORRUPTIBLE, &C.— Or, _And when,_ &c. "When this glorious and long expected event shall be accomplished,—when this corruptible part of our frame shall have put on incorruption, &c. thensh...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Its Heavenliness (1 Corinthians 15:35-57) 35 But some one will ask, How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come? 36You foolish man! What you sow does not...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Answer to Problems of The Resurrection_ (35-58) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 15:35-58. But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? 36 Tho...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? From Hosea 13:14 substantially, but freely quoted by the warrant of the Spirit. The Hebrew may be translated, 'O death, where are thy pla...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    40 There is no direct statement here that our bodies will be changed to celestial bodies, in accord with the later revelation of Ephesians, but such an inference would be in point. Even among the cele...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    15:55 victory? (f-11) See Hosea 13:14 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _(F) THE FACT AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD_ Some Corinthians disbelieved in the resurrection of the dead—not, apparently, in Christ's Resurrection, though St. Paul felt this would...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 15 *RESURRECTION 15:1-58 The reason that Paul was writing about the *resurrection is in verse 12. Some Christians were saying that there i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? — In the prophet Hosea, where these words originally occur, the passage reads thus — “Where is thy victory, O death? Where is thy sting, O hell?” — the word “hell” referri...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    At this climax P. breaks into a song of triumph over Death, in the strain of Hosea's rapturous anticipation of Israel's resurrection from national death. [Many interpreters, however, put the opp [2574...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 56. VICTORY OVER DEATH. The second part of the argument of this chapter has now reached the same platform as the first (_cf._ §§ 51 and 54). The Resurrection of the Body, it has been shown, is an es...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    VICTORY OVER SIN AND DEATH 1 Corinthians 15:42 Life on the other side will be as real and as earnest as here. We shall not dissolve into thin mist or flit as bodiless ghosts. We shall each be provide...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The last fact of the "spiritualities" is the resurrection, and the apostle first gives the proof of the resurrection of Christ. His final proof was his own experience. It is evident that there were so...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The Greatest And Final Victory Our fleshly bodies will have no place in heaven since it is an incorruptible place (1 Peter 1:34). God's apostle to the Gentiles was revealing something which had long b...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    II. THE MODE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35-58. After demonstrating the essential part played by the resurrection in the Christian salvation, the apostle sets himself to answer t...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “Where is thy sting, O death? O death, where is thy victory? 56. Now the sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.” The text varies considerably in the MSS., influenced no doubt by th...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    . But the miraculous and instantaneous change from mortality to immortality, which he here asserts, and which is to be wrought without passing through death, this is a mystery nowhere else spoken of....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    As to the second clause, in which he triumphs over death and the grave, it is not certain whether he speaks of himself, or whether he meant there also to quote the words of the Prophet. For where we r...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But other evils had found means to introduce themselves into the midst of the shining gifts which were exercised in the bosom of the flock at Corinth. The resurrection of the dead was denied. Satan is...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING?.... These words, with the following clause, are taken out of Hosea 13:14 and that they belong to the times of the Messiah, the ancient Jews acknowledge; and the Chaldee pa...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    O death, where _is_ thy sting? O grave, where _is_ thy victory? Ver. 55. _Death, where is thy sting?_] This is the sharpest and the shrillest note, the boldest and the bravest challenge, that ever ma...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _O death, where is thy sting?_ Which once was full of hellish poison. _O grave_ Αδης, _O hades_, the receptacle of separate souls; _where is thy victory?_ Thou art now robbed of thy spoils; all thy ca...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    THY STING; that by which thou didst terrify men. Hosea 13:14. THY VICTORY; by which thou didst hold men as vanquished....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The transformation of the last day and the victory over death:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY?...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    This chapter itself forms a third division of the book, and deals with another most serious matter in Corinth. Some among them denied the resurrection of the dead. But the resurrection of Christ is th...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GRAVE: Or, hell...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    51-58 All the saints should not die, but all would be changed. In the gospel, many truths, before hidden in mystery, are made known. Death never shall appear in the regions to which our Lord will bea...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? [This passage is quoted loosely from Hosea 13:14. Warned by the glow and glory of his argument, the apostle bursts forth in this strain of t...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II own passion rescued us from offences, and sins, and such like thorns; and having destroyed the devil, deservedly said in triumph, "O Death, where is thy s...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 15:55 Death G2288 where G4226 your G4675 sting G2759 Hades G86 where G4226 your G4675 victory...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    'O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?' Paul now comes back to the present and is so carried away with the glory of the idea that he chides death itself as he considers the res...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 15:55. O DEATH, WHERE IS THY VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? (Hosea 13:14). The textual evidence for this reading of so familiar a verse is decisive; and though it may be less grat...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _The Mode and Issues of the Resurrection,_ 35-57. The invaluable information on the subject of the resurrection here given is drawn forth in the way of reply to objections, arising from the difficult...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    VICTORY (νικος). Late form of νικη.O DEATH (θανατε). Second instance. Here Paul changes Hades of the LXX for Hebrew Sheol (Hosea 13:14) to death. Paul never uses Hades.THY STING (σου το κεντρον)...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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 trium...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 15:1. _Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory wh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers resulting from it. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Cephas, James, Adam. CONCLUSION: The resurrection of Christ, together with His...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    1 Corinthians 15:1. _I declare unto you the gospel by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you._ We have here an epitome of the whole gospel, comprising essentially the d...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    WHERE, DEATH? Paul adapts the language _of_ Hosea 13:14 as A song of victory! "Death, who lead the human family captive, where is your victory? All the dead have been rescued from you! With your power...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For this corruptible must put on incorruption._ THE GREAT CHANGE The apostle presents this-- I. As a contrast betwixt what man now is and what he will be. 1. Twice over the apostle affirms the cha...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O death, where is thy sting?_ O grave, where is thy victory? DEATH IN IDEA There are two aspects in which this language might be regarded. 1. As the sentiment of the redeemed after the resurrecti...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:54 DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP. See v. 1 Corinthians 15:26....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15:35 Apparently the Corinthians did not understand how ma­terial bodies, subject to sickness, death, and eventual decay, could live eternally. Paul explains that G...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 The Futility of Faith If the Dead Are Not Raised. Many people in the ancient Greco-Roman world believed that death ended life completely or led to a permanent but shadowy existence...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 15 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He proves the resurrection of the dead against the false teachers who denied it: I. From the fact of Christ's resurrection. Thus (ver. 12) he gives the bearing of...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 _The doctrine of the resurrection. _This chapter, and the thirteenth, on Christian love, stand out, even among the writings of St. Paul, as pre-eminently beautiful and i...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 15. The Corinthian church was a real mess. A lot of carnality that led to divisions, a lot of party spirit, a real misunderstanding of the spiritual gifts, a lot o...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 2:27; Acts 9:5; Ecclesiastes 2:15; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Ec

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    O death, where, etc. From Hosea 13:14, a free version of the Sept. : " Where is thy penalty, O Death ? Where thy sting, O Hades ? Heb. : Where are thy plagues, O Death ? Where thy pestilence, O Sheol?...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED UP? 1 Corinthians 15:29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are two rather startling questions asked and answered in the opening verses; that is, from 1 Corinthians 15:29 1. The first...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    O death, where is thy sting? — Which once was full of hellish poison. O hades, the receptacle of separate souls, where is thy victory — Thou art now robbed of all thy spoils; all thy captives are set...

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