The triumph believers share in by union with the risen Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57: thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. The context is the resurrection chapter's climax — death itself swallowed up in victory through Christ's resurrection-conquest. The Greek nikos (victory) is the same root as Christ's repeated exhortations in Revelation 2-3: to him that overcometh (Greek nikonti, conqueror, is repeated to every church). Believers are more than conquerors (Greek hypernikomen, hyper-conquerors) through Him that loved us (Rom 8:37). The victory is comprehensive: over sin (Rom 6:14), over the law's condemnation (Rom 8:1), over the world (1 John 5:4), over the flesh (Gal 5:24), over death (1 Cor 15:54-55), and finally over Satan himself (Rom 16:20; Rev 12:11). The victory is not earned by the Christian but received by faith in the One who conquered first.
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• "Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:57)."