But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Cross-references (16)
Passages linked to 1 Corinthians 15:57 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
- Romans 8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- 1 John 5:4-5 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
- Proverbs 21:31 The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.
- Revelation 12:11 They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
- John 16:33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
- 2 Corinthians 9:15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
- Psalms 98:1 Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
- Revelation 15:2-3 I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
- Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
- Ephesians 5:20 giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
- 1 Chronicles 22:11 Now, my son, may Yahweh be with you and prosper you, and build the house of Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
- 1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
- 2 Corinthians 1:11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.
- 2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
- Acts 27:35 When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, then he broke it and began to eat.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us…
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 57. But thanks be to God, &c.] Here St Paul, Christ’s chief herald, proclaims his victory with a world of solemnity and triumph.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The victory over sin and over death, we have…
The victory over sin and over death, we have both through the death and the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ; who by his death both delivered us from the guilt of sin, and also from the power of sin; and who through death destroyed him who had the power of death, even the devil.
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William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain But thanks be to God, which giveth us the…
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory-- Over sin, death, and the law.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ. That is, through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Observe here, 1. An enemy encountered, death: death armed by sin, and strengthened by the law. . This is often a surprising enemy, an amazing enemy, a spoiling and destroying enemy, an inevitable and unavoidable enemy.
Observe, 2. Victory over this enemy declared: the destruction of death, as to its terror and power. Death is overcome. But how? Non ut ne sit, but ut non obsit; not that it should not be, but that it should not hurt. Death has lost its sting, that it cannot annoy; it has lost its terror, that it cannot amaze; it has lost its power, that it cannot destroy.
Observe, 3. The victors or conquerors over this enemy--who are first Christ, and then all that are Christ’s, all that harvest of which Christ is the first-fruits.
Observe, 4. The triumph proclaimed, Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory.
From the whole learn, That all believers are victorious over death, through our Lord Jesus Christ. They may triumph over death through Christ, because he has disarmed it by his death and satisfaction, he has destroyed it by his resurrection; and Christ’s victories become the believer’s by participation and communion with him. As they communicate with him in the value of his satisfaction, so they communicate with him in the virtue of his resurrection.
Let us therefore triumph with the apostle, and say, Thanks be to God; with the prophet, Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust. Thus victory was won by Christ, it is won by us; it was dear to Christ: it is cheap to us: we overcome, but it is by the blood of the Lamb. Let us therefore, living and dying, say, Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain But thanks be to God, who hath given us…
But thanks be to God, who hath given us the victory - Over sin, death, and hades.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 57. But thanks be to God] What the…
Verse 57. But thanks be to God] What the law could not do, because it is law, (and law cannot provide pardon,) is done by the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: he has died to slay death; he has risen again to bring mankind from under the empire of hades. All this he has done through his mere unmerited mercy; and eternal thanks are due to God for this unspeakable gift. He has given us the victory over sin, Satan, death, the grave, and hell.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain But thanks be to God; - See the notes…
But thanks be to God; - See the notes at Rom 7:25.
Which giveth us the victory - Us who are Christians; all Christians. The victory over sin, death, and the grave. God alone is the author of this victory. He formed the plan; he executed it in the gift of his Son; and he gives it to us personally when we come to die.
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Through our Lord Jesus Christ - By his death, thus destroying the power of death; by his resurrection and triumph over the grave; and by his grace imparted to us to enable us to sustain the pains of death, and giving to us the hope of a glorious resurrection; compare the note at Rom 7:25; Rom 8:37.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain to God--The victory was in no way due to…
to God--The victory was in no way due to ourselves (Psa 98:1).
giveth--a present certainty.
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the victory--which death and Hades ("the grave") had aimed at, but which, notwithstanding the opposition of them, as well as of the law and sin, we have gained. The repetition of the word (Co1 15:54-55) is appropriate to the triumph gained.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 57. But—There is one who has satisfied the law;…
57. But—There is one who has satisfied the law; has thence taken out the strength of sin; thence destroyed the sting of death; and so wrought the resurrection. This exposition shows that the reference to the law is logically in the straight line of Paul’s argument. It shows, we think, the infelicity of Stanley’s remark: “It seems as if he could not mention sin, without adding that the strength of sin is the law.” As if the apostle’s pen, like a garrulous man’s tongue, ran on its own account in the grooves of habit, loose from brain or thought. Yet it is a pertinent remark of Stanley’s, that this apparently “is the germ of what is afterwards fully developed in Rom_5:12-21; Rom_7:7-24.” And Rom_7:25 is an echo of this verse.
The victory—That over hades, in 1Co_15:55, by the resurrection, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 57. But thanks be to God, which giveth us…
57. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ] This sense of having transgressed that righteous law need disturb us no longer. Our shortcomings have been fully atoned for by the Life and Death of Jesus Christ. The mortal part of us must pay the penalty due to sin (Rom_6:23), but the spiritual part remains unsubdued, because it is united to Him Who has fulfilled the law, has taken our condemnation upon Himself, has acknowledged its justice on our behalf, and has enabled us through fellowship with Him to attain to the victory over evil which He Himself has attained.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (57) But thanks be to God.—The future is so…
(57) But thanks be to God.—The future is so certain that the Apostle speaks of it as a subject for present thanksgiving; the victory is one which God gives now through Jesus Christ. His resurrection is the pledge of our resurrection. His death is the power by which we are enabled to conquer that lower self, from whose crucifixion and death we shall rise to the higher incorruptible life of the resurrection day. With this earnest and enthusiastic expression of praise to God the argument concludes. Through arguments historical, moral, philosophical; through explanations from the analogy of Nature, and from the theology of Old and New Testament history, the Apostle has led his readers, vindicating the truth and illustrating the manner of the Resurrection of the Dead. He projects his mind into the future, and, standing in thought with ransomed and raised Humanity after death has been vanquished and the grave been spoiled, he joins in the shout of triumphant praise which shall then ascend to Christ and God.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory.…
Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory. The victory consists in the defeat of death by the Resurrection, and the forgiveness of sin through Christ"s atone-merit, and the nailing to his cross of the torn and abrogated Law which made us slaves to sin and death. (Col_2:14) "In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us". (Rom_8:37) Through our Lord Jesus Christ. Who, by fulfilling the Law, has robbed it of its condemning power, (Rom_8:1) and by his death "hath destroyed him that had the power of death, that is the devil". (Heb_2:14, Heb_2:15)
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 57. Thanks be to God. For the victory over…
57. Thanks be to God. For the victory over sin and death through Christ.
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William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain 57. “Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the…
57. “Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” This victory comes when we receive the glorious sanctifying power, which takes away the sin-principle, thus utterly and eternally disarming death of all his terrors.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain but thanks be to God [ Psa_98:1 ], who…
but thanks be to God [ Psa_98:1 ], who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ . [Death is here spoken of under the figure of a serpent. Sin is the bite or sting with which he slays men, and the power or poisonous strength of sin is found in the curse which the law pronounces upon the sinner. By the triple power of law, sin and death, the glory of man was brought to nought; but thanks are due to God, who restored glory to man through Jesus Christ. Christ gave man the victory over the law, for he nailed it to his cross ( Col_2:14 ); he gave him victory over sin, for he made atonement for sin ( Heb_7:27 ); and he gave him victory over death by his resurrection, which is the earnest of the general resurrection. Wonderful threefold victory!]
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 15:57 The death and resurrection of Christ ends the…
15:57 The death and resurrection of Christ ends the dominating power of sin and death (see Rom 6:14; 8:2; 10:4).
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