1 Corinthians 15:54 (WEB)
But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
Fathers and councils · 36
Augustine of Hippo
“Where is, O death, thy contention?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55
Read the whole comment“But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, life will swallow it up wholly, and not a sting of death will remain.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–56. [See R.V.]
Read the whole comment“For who shall hinder us, when “shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“…in me, even to the fulness of peace, which both that which is within and that which is without shall have with Thee, when death is swallowed up in victory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“For by eating and drinking we repair the daily decays of the body, until Thou destroyest both food and stomach, when Thou shall destroy my want with an amazing satiety, and shalt clothe this corruptible with an eternal incorruption.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“But the mind is lifted up, when it can be said already, “With the mind I serve the law of God;” that the rest of man may be reduced to peaceable submission, when in the resurrection of the flesh “death is swallowed up in victory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“Then shall “this corruptible put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality; then shall death be swallowed up in victory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“When that shall be fulfilled in us which he saith, “When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“But this shall be in the Resurrection of just men, “when both this corruptible shall be clad in incorruption, and this mortal shall be clad in immortality: then shall come to pass that which hath been written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“Until then this corruptible put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality, like as it were with fetters, the weak flesh doth let the willing spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment““When death shall be swallowed up in victory, when this mortal shall have put on immortality,” no one will say, “I have been standing a long time;” no one will say, “I have fasted a long time,” “I have watched a long time.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“…of our body:” but, “when death shall have been swallowed up in victory, and this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal immortality;” then there will be no weeping, because there will be no falling; and no falling, because no corruption.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53, 54.
Read the whole comment“For “death shall be swallowed up in victory,” and we shall be free to see God in eternal peace, being made citizens of Jerusalem, the city of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“Then shalt thou have in full what thou wishest, when “death shall have been swallowed up in victory;” when this mortal body has been raised, and is changed into the condition of the angels, and rises aloft to a heavenly quality.…There is life, there are good…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“For the mind doth the more gloriously advance to higher things, the more diligently the concupiscence is curbed from lower things; until the whole man together with even this now mortal and frail body in the last resurrection be clothed with incorruption and immortality, and death be swallowed up in victory.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54
Read the whole comment“…mindful in any case of the promises of God, and of that life where this incorruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality; though at present hesitating from the greatness, or at least from a certain degree of love, he would reply with execration that he is strongly averse to it.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53, 54.
Read the whole comment“But when the flesh shall be in harmony with the mind, and “death shall be swallowed up in victory,” so that no carnal desires shall remain for the mind to be in conflict with, when strife in the earth shall have passed away, the war of the heart be over, and…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“There rightly, “O death, where is thy sting?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.
Read the whole comment“They fear eternal punishment, they desire eternal life; they grieve because they themselves groan within themselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of their body; they rejoice in hope, because there “shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“What will this power of the soul be when this body shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“Where, O death, is thy sting?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“O death, where is thy struggle?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 26, 53–55. Struggle, “contentio.”
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Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VI.36Book VI
“And also: “When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 54; cf. Hos. xiii. 14.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis II.3Book II
“O death, thy sting has been swallowed up: the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–56; cf. Hos. xiii. 14 and Isa. xxv. 8.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“…body, and partakers with the saints; and discourse how it is that “this mortal body shall put on immortality, and this corruptible shall put on incorruption;” and proclaim in what sense [God] says, “That is a people who was not a people; and she is beloved who was not beloved;” and in what sense He says that “more…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“O death, where is thy sting?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For Christ’s endurance of death was made the death of Death.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.
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Jerome
“…am I strong:” “we have our treasure in earthen vessels” until “this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality” and again “as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ:” and then as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54.
Read the whole comment“And in the same context: “but if, as reason and the authority of scripture shew, this corruptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on immortality, death shall be swallowed up in victory and corruption in incorruption.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53, 54.
Read the whole comment“But when thecorruptible shall have put on incorruption, and the mortal shall have put on immortality, and the clay of the flesh shall have been made into a vessel, then…” — editor's note: Ib. 54.
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Tertullian
“The sting of death is sin”—here is the corruption; “and the strength of sin is the law”—that other law, no doubt, which he has described “in his members as warring against the law of his mind,”—meaning, of course, the actual power of sinning against his will.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54–56.
Read the whole comment“Death, says the apostle, has devoured by exercising its strength, and therefore has been itself devoured in the struggle “swallowed up in victory.”” — editor's note: Ver. 54.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“O death, where is thy strife?” — editor's note: Ib. 53–55. The reading ‘strife’ instead of ‘victory’ arose from the confusion of νεῖκος (=strife) and νῖκος (=victory) in the original Greek.
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Aphrahat
“As to death, its sting is broken and it is swallowed up in life.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54, 55.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Where, O death, is thy striving?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–55.
Read the whole comment“In the fifth Psalm: “But in the grave who will confess unto Thee?”” — editor's note: Ps. vi. 5. [Here, as often, the grave is represented as enjoying a temporary victory, for the flesh is no longer capable of worship. Not till the whole man is…
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Cross-references · 27
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 40 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 40 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 40.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Confessions X.30.
Cited together in Confessions X.30.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Confessions X.30.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in Confessions X.30.
Cited together in A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.115.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Celsus VI.36.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.15.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.
Cited together in Against Heresies I.10.