1 Coríntios 15:56

56 O aguilhão da morte é o pecado, e a força do pecado é a Lei.

1 Coríntios 15:56 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin
Death has a sting, and which was originally in it, and that is sin; sin is the cause of death, it is what has given rise and being to it; it entered into the world by it, and is supported in its empire through it; it gives it its resistless power, which reaches to all sorts of persons, young and old, rich and poor, high and low, bond and free; it gives it all its bitterness, agonies, and miseries; and it is by that it does all the hurt and mischief it does; and it may fitly be compared to a sting, for its poisonous and venomous nature:

and the strength of sin is the law;
not that the law of God is sinful, or encourages sin: it forbids it under the severest penalty; but was there no law there would be no sin, nor imputation of it; sin is a transgression of the law: moreover, the strength of sin, its evil nature, and all the dreadful aggravations of it, and sad consequences upon it, are discovered and made known by the law; and also the strength of it is drawn out by it, through the corruption of human nature; which is irritated and provoked the more to sin, through the law's prohibition of it; and this is not the fault of the law, but is owing to the vitiosity of nature; which the more it is forbidden anything, the more desirous it is of it; to which may be added, that sin is the more exceeding sinful, being committed against a known law, and that of the great lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; whose legislative power and authority are slighted and trampled upon by it, which makes the transgression the more heinous; it is the law which binds sin upon a man's conscience, accuses him of it, pronounces him guilty, curses, condemns, and adjudges him to death for it.

1 Coríntios 15:56 In-Context

54 Quando, porém, o que é corruptível se revestir de incorruptibilidade e o que é mortal de imortalidade, então se cumprirá a palavra que está escrita: “A morte foi destruída pela vitória”.

55 “Onde está, ó morte, a sua vitória?Onde está, ó morte, o seu aguilhão?”

56 O aguilhão da morte é o pecado, e a força do pecado é a Lei.

57 Mas graças a Deus, que nos dá a vitória por meio de nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo.

58 Portanto, meus amados irmãos, mantenham-se firmes, e que nada os abale. Sejam sempre dedicados à obra do Senhor, pois vocês sabem que, no Senhor, o trabalho de vocês não será inútil.