But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
to God--The victory was in no way due to ourselves (Psa 98:1). giveth--a present certainty. 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.
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. 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.
57. But thanks be to God From this it appears, why it it was that he made mention both of sin and of the law, when treating of death. Death has no sting with which to wound except sin, and the law imparts to this sting a deadly power.