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Thef sting of death is sin; andg the strength of sin is the law.

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Rom. 6:23• ²³For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)

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Rom. 4:15• ¹⁵For law works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression. (Rom. 4:15)

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Gen. 3:17‑19• ¹⁷And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17‑19)

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Psa. 90:3‑11• ³Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.
⁴For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:
⁶In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee? (Psa. 90:3‑11)

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Prov. 14:32• ³²The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, even in his death. (Prov. 14:32)

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John 8:21,24• ²¹He said therefore again to them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin; where I go ye cannot come.
²⁴I said therefore to you, that ye shall die in your sins; for unless ye shall believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. (John 8:21,24)

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Rom. 5:15,17• ¹⁵But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.
¹⁷For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:) (Rom. 5:15,17)

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Rom. 6:23• ²³For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment; (Heb. 9:27)

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Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 4:15• ¹⁵For law works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression. (Rom. 4:15)

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Rom. 5:13,20• ¹³(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;
²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded, (Rom. 5:13,20)

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Rom. 7:5‑13• ⁵For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
⁶but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
⁷What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;
⁸but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.
⁹But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.
¹⁰And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:
¹¹for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
¹²So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
¹³Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. (Rom. 7:5‑13)

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Gal. 3:10‑13• ¹⁰For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;
¹¹but that by law no one is justified with God is evident, because The just shall live on the principle of faith;
¹²but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that shall have done these things shall live by them.
¹³Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one hanged upon a tree,) (Gal. 3:10‑13)

• But death has its sting—"The sting of death is sin." It is indeed a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Men must give an account to God. Sin stings the conscience. They cannot die as they like. There is that in the human heart which nothing short of what is eternal can meet....But many a person on a death-bed knows that all is not right, for death has its dreadful sting. The thought of having to appear before God, and giving an account is often terrible to bear. Conscience accuses. (“Sin, Death, and Victory”)

• The more the troubled soul clings to the ten commandments as a remedy, the more intense his misery becomes, for the power of sin is the law. "By the law is the knowledge of sin," and "the law entered that the offense might abound." (Rom. 3:20; 5:20.) The law then, though most useful in showing man he is a sinner, instead of removing sin, exposes sin, and condemns the sinner. (“Sin, Death, and Victory”)

• It is sin which gives not only occasion, but its sting, to death; and the law, however righteous, could work no deliverance for the guilty, but proves in effect the strength of sin, by provoking its rebellious will so much the more against the commands of God. His grace, not the law, is the strength of holiness, as we learn from Rom. 6:14; and therefore does the Apostle here break forth into thanksgiving as he sees God giving us the victory so completely and forever, through our Lord Jesus Christ. (“Notes on 1 Corinthians 15:50-58” by W. Kelly)

• It was sin which sharpened and envenomed that sting. It was the law which, presenting to the conscience exact righteousness, and the judgment of God which required the accomplishment of that law, and pronounced a curse on those who failed in it—it was the law which gave sin its force to the conscience, and made death doubly formidable. (“1 Corinthians 15” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law;

W. Kelly Translation

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Now the sting of death [is] sin, and the power of sin the law;