1 Corinthians 15

✓ Walks the creed's own sequence, death for sins, burial, rising on the third day, each event in its place

⚠ Paul says according to the Scriptures twice in two verses. The song sings the events without singing that they were foretold, and repetition will plant the story without the promise

✓ Walks the gospel in order across four stanzas: incarnation, obedient life, cross, resurrection. Few congregational songs give Christ's obedient life a stanza of its own, and most go from manger to cross

⚠ Paul's joining word is firstfruits, and it appears nowhere in the hymn. The closing line makes the singers' future a likeness to the risen Christ, where verses 20 and 23 make it a harvest He has already begun

✓ The taunt stanza keeps both of Paul's questions whole: death asked about its sting, the grave asked about its victory, nothing softened

⚠ No translation is named. The grave-address tracks the King James specifically, so a singer checking the stanza against most modern Bibles will find both questions put to death and no grave addressed at all. The hymn did not err; its Bible was the KJV

✓ Honest about what it is. The hymn is a first-person testimony, it never presents itself as scripture, and it cites no verse to be checked against

⚠ The refrain names where the victory is found, not what it is over. Careful readers fill the gap differently, which means the object is being supplied by the reader