1 Corinthians 15:56 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁶The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

1 Corinthians 15:56 —

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Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Galatians 3:10-13
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. …
Romans 7:5-13
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. …
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
John 8:24
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 51-57)

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 are alive at our Lord’s coming will be caught up into the clouds, without dying, 1 Thess. 4:11. But it is plain from this passage that it will not be without changing from corruption to incorruption. The…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 56)

56. If there were no sin, there would be no death. Man’s transgression of the law gives death its lawful power. strength of sin is the law--Without the law sin is not perceived or imputed (Ro 3:20; 4:15; 5:13). The law makes sin the more grievous by making God’s will the clearer (Ro 7:8-10). Christ’s people are no longer “under the law” (Ro 6:14).