1 Corinthians 15:56 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 15:56

“Now the sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law.” Do you see how the discourse is of the death of the body? Therefore also of the resurrection of the body. For if these bodies do not rise again, how is death “swallowed up?” And not this only, but how is “the law the power of sin?” For that “sin” indeed is “the sting of death,” and more bitter than it, and by it has its power, is evident; but how is “the law also the power” thereof? Because without the law sin…