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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 free gift of God life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)

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Rom. 4:15• ¹⁵For the law worketh out wrath; but where no law is, [there is] no transgression. (Rom. 4:15)

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Gen. 3:17‑19• ¹⁷And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto thy wife's voice, and hast eaten of the tree [of] which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed [be] the ground for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all thy life's days;
¹⁸and thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat herbage of the field;
¹⁹in sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken. For dust [art] thou, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Gen. 3:17‑19)

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Psa. 90:3‑11• ³Thou turnest man to crumbling,{HR}And sayest, Return, sons of men.
⁴For a thousand years in thine eyes{HR}[Are] as yesterday when it passeth,{HR}And a watch in the night.
⁵Thou sweepest them away— asleep are they;{HR}In the morning as grass changeth;
⁶In the morning it flourisheth and changeth;{HR}At the evening it is mown and withereth.
⁷For we decay in thine anger,{HR}And in thy wrath are we confounded.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,{HR}Our secret [sins] in the light of thy face.
⁹For all our days are turned away in thy wrath:{HR}We spend our years as a thought.
¹⁰The days of our years! in them [are] seventy years,{HR}And if by strength eighty years,{HR}Even their pride [is] trouble and mischief;{HR}For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger,{HR}And, as thy fear, thy wrath? (Psa. 90:3‑11)

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Prov. 14:32• ³²The wicked is thrust down by his evil doings;{HR}But in his death the righteous trusteth. (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 away, ye cannot come.
²⁴I said therefore to you that ye shall die in your sins; for, unless ye 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, as the offence, so also [be] the free gift? for if by the offence of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound unto the many.
¹⁷For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much more they that receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall 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 free gift of God life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)

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

the strength.

Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with 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 the law worketh out wrath; but where no law is, [there is] no transgression. (Rom. 4:15)

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Rom. 5:13,20• ¹³(for until law sin was in [the] world, but no sin is put to account when there is no law;
²⁰But law came in by the way, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded, grace over-abounded (Rom. 5:13,20)

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Rom. 7:5‑13• ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins that [were] by the law wrought in our members bringing forth fruit to death;
⁶but now have we got quittance from the law, having died in what we were held so as for us to serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
⁷What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? Let it not be. Nay, I had not known sin unless by law; for lust also I had not been conscious of, unless the law had said, “Thou shalt not lust.”
⁸But sin having taken occasion by the commandment wrought in me every lust; for apart from law sin is dead.
⁹But I was alive apart from law once; but, the commandment having come, sin revived and I died,
¹⁰and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found to me unto death.
¹¹For sin having taken a point of attack by the commandment deceived me and by it slew [me].
¹²So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
¹³Did then the good become death to me? Let it not be; but sin, that it might appear sin, working out death to me by the good, that sin might become excessively sinful by the commandment. (Rom. 7:5‑13)

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Gal. 3:10‑13• ¹⁰For as many as are of works of law are under curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doth not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them;”
¹¹but that in virtue of law none is justified with God [is] evident, for “the just by faith shall
¹²live;” but the law is not of faith, but he who hath done them shall live in virtue of them.
¹³Christ bought us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on 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;