1 Corinthians 15:54 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:54

Death is swallowed up in victory . A free citation from the Hebrew of Isaiah 25:8 . The words "into victory" are the LXX . rendering in other passages ( Amos 1:11 ; Amos 8:8 ) for the Hebrew lanetsach, foreverse The metaphor, "is swallowed up," implying "the swallowing of the all swallower," is found in the rabbis (comp. Hebrews 2:14 , Hebrews 2:15 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:54-57

The victory of immortality. In this, as in some other passages of St. Paul's writings, logic breaks into rhetoric, prose into poetry, reasoning into fervid exclamation. Anxious to convince, the apostle was nevertheless of a temperament too fervid to be restrained within the boundaries of argument. And when his soul was lifted up above the level of human thought, when inspiration carried him into the third heaven, then he could no longer discourse; but discourse kindled into song. If there... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:54

So when ... - In that future glorious world, when all this shall have been accomplished.Then shall be brought to pass - Then shall be fully accomplished; these words shall then receive their entire fulfillment; or this event shall meet all that is implied in these words.The saying that is written - What is written, or the record which is made. These words are quoted from Isaiah 25:8; and the fact that Paul thus quotes them, and the connection in which they stand, prove that they had reference... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 15:53-54

1 Corinthians 15:53-54. For this corruptible This human nature, which is corruptible; must In order to its partaking of the above-mentioned glory; put on incorruption Be endued with such qualities as shall continue in perpetual vigour, not subject to any alteration; and this mortal must put on immortality So as to be no longer subject to diseases or death. The word ενδυσασθαι , here rendered to put on, literally signifies to go into a place, or metaphorically, to put on, or go into... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

The resurrection body (15:35-58)Some people mocked the idea of the resurrection by asking how could bodies that have decayed in the earth be raised to life again. Paul answers with an illustration. A seed dies when it is put in the ground, but this is part of the process of bringing forth new life in the form of a plant that grows up out of the ground. What grows up is different from what was buried, but in a sense it is the same thing. It is dry and dead looking when put in the ground, but... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 15:54

saying = word. App-121 . swallowed up . Greek. katapino. Elsewhere Matthew 23:24 . 2Co 2:7 ; 2 Corinthians 5:4 .Hebrews 11:29 . 1 Peter 5:8 . Revelation 12:16 . in = unto. App-104 . victory . Greek. nikos. Only here, verses: 1 Corinthians 15:55 , 1 Corinthians 15:57 , and Matthew 12:20 . The quotation is from Isaiah 25:8 , and the following verse from Hosea 13:14 . App-107 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:54

But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?This passage recalls the words from Hosea:I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction (Hosea 13:14, KJV). I will ransom them from the power of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:54-55

1 Corinthians 15:54-55. 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. thenshall be fulfilled what is written, Isaiah 25:8. Death is swallowed up in victory; perfectly subdued and destroyed; and so happy a state introduced, that it would hardly be known that death had ever had any place or power among Christ's subjects; in the assured view... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 15:54

54. then—not before. Death has as yet a sting even to the believer, in that his body is to be under its power till the resurrection. But then the sting and power of death shall cease for ever. Death is swallowed up in victory—In Hebrew of :-, from which it is quoted, "He (Jehovah) will swallow up death in victory"; that is, for ever: as "in victory" often means in Hebrew idiom (Jeremiah 3:5; Lamentations 5:20). Christ will swallow it up so altogether victoriously that it shall never more... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 15:50-58

4. The assurance of victory over death 15:50-58Paul brought his revelation of the resurrection to a climax in this paragraph by clarifying what all this means for the believer in Christ. Here he also dealt with the exceptional case of living believers’ transformation at the Rapture. Transformation is absolutely necessary to enter the spiritual mode of future existence. This transformation will happen when Christ comes. read more