1 Corinthians 15:26

Last enemy. Death is here personified, as in v. 55 and Rev. 6:8. There is no article in the Greek, and the word for “last” occupies the first, or emphatic, place in the sentence, stressing the finality of Christ’s victory over all opposition, even over man’s most-feared enemy, death. The end of death will coincide with the end of sin. When there is no more sin, there will be no more death, for death results from sin (see on Rom. 6:21, 23; James 1:15). Some maintained that there is no resurrection, death is the end. The apostle gives the startling reply that in God’s plan there is finally to be no death, for death itself will be destroyed (see on Isa. 25:8; Nahum 1:9; Rev. 21:4).

Destroyed. Gr. katargeo, “to do away with,” “to abolish,” “to put down” (v. 24).