My God and My Country

The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Church at Corinth

Chapter 15:56-58

56 The sting of death is sin: and the strength of sin is the Law.

57 But thanks be unto God, which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, abundant always in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Related Scripture:

1 John 5:5; Romans 8:37-38

Brethren:

We are not only not overcome with so great and many miseries and calamities, but also more than conquerors in all of them. Moreover Paul declares two things; the one what true faith is, to wit, that which rests upon Jesus Christ the Son of God alone: whereupon follows the other, to wit, that this strength is not proper to faith, but by faith as an instrument is drawn from Jesus Christ the Son of God. Likewise, as Paul writes, there is nothing, nay, not one thing that can separate us from God's love and mercy.