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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evils, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou πshalt surely die.

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Gen. 3:1,3,11,17• ¹And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
³but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.
¹¹And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
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; (Gen. 3:1,3,11,17)

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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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1 Cor. 15:56• ⁵⁶Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law; (1 Cor. 15:56)

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Gen. 2:9• ⁹And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Gen. 2:9)

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Gen. 3:1‑3,11,17,19• ¹And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so, that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
²And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden;
³but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.
¹¹And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
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;
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. 3:1‑3,11,17,19)

thou shalt surely die.

Heb. dying thou shalt die.

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Gen. 3:3‑4,19• ³but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.
⁴And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die;
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. 3:3‑4,19)

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Gen. 20:7• ⁷And now, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and will pray for thee, that thou mayest live. And if thou do not restore her, know that thou shalt certainly die, thou and all that is thine. (Gen. 20:7)

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Num. 26:65• ⁶⁵For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. (Num. 26:65)

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Deut. 27:26• ²⁶Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:26)

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1 Sam. 14:39,44• ³⁹For, as Jehovah liveth, who has saved Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall certainly die. And no one answered him among all the people.
⁴⁴And Saul said, God do so to me and more also; thou shalt certainly die, Jonathan. (1 Sam. 14:39,44)

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1 Sam. 20:31• ³¹For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. And now send and fetch him to me, for he must die. (1 Sam. 20:31)

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1 Sam. 22:16• ¹⁶And the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house. (1 Sam. 22:16)

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1 Kings 2:37,42• ³⁷And it shall be that on the day thou goest forth, and passest over the torrent of Kidron, … know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
⁴²And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make thee swear by Jehovah, and protest to thee, saying, Know for certain, that on the day thou goest forth, and walkest abroad anywhere, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst to me, The word that I have heard is good. (1 Kings 2:37,42)

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Jer. 26:8• ⁸And it came to pass when Jeremiah had ended speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, Thou shalt certainly die. (Jer. 26:8)

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Ezek. 3:18‑20• ¹⁸When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
¹⁹But if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
²⁰And when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand. (Ezek. 3:18‑20)

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Ezek. 18:4,13,32• ⁴Behold, all the souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
¹³given forth upon usury, and taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall certainly die; his blood shall be upon him.
³²For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn ye and live. (Ezek. 18:4,13,32)

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Ezek. 33:8,14• ⁸When I say unto the wicked, Wicked man, thou shalt certainly die; and thou speakest not to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
¹⁴And when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die, and he turneth from his sin, and doeth judgment and justice; (Ezek. 33:8,14)

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Rom. 1:32• ³²who knowing the righteous judgment of God, that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practise them, but have fellow delight in those who do them. (Rom. 1:32)

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Rom. 5:12‑21• ¹²For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
¹³(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;
¹⁴but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come.
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.
¹⁶And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.
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:)
¹⁸so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.
¹⁹For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.
²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,
²¹in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:12‑21)

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Rom. 6:16,23• ¹⁶Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
²³For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:16,23)

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Rom. 7:10‑13• 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. 7:10‑13)

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Rom. 8:2• ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death. (Rom. 8:2)

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1 Cor. 15:22,56• ²²For as in the Adam all die, thus also in the Christ all shall be made alive.
⁵⁶Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law; (1 Cor. 15:22,56)

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Gal. 3:10• 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; (Gal. 3:10)

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Eph. 2:1‑6• ¹and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins--
²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:
⁴but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,
⁵(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)
⁶and has raised us up together, and has made us sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, (Eph. 2:1‑6)

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Eph. 5:14• ¹⁴Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee. (Eph. 5:14)

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Col. 2:13• ¹³And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences; (Col. 2:13)

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1 Tim. 5:6• ⁶But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead while living. (1 Tim. 5:6)

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James 1:15• ¹⁵then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death. (James 1:15)

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1 John 5:16• ¹⁶If any one see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life, for those that do not sin unto death. There is a sin to death: I do not say of that that he should make a request. (1 John 5:16)

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Rev. 2:11• ¹¹He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He that overcomes shall in no wise be injured of the second death. (Rev. 2:11)

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Rev. 20:6,14• ⁶Blessed and holy he who has part in the first resurrection: over these the second death has no power; but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
¹⁴and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, even the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:6,14)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

• Adam’s life was suspended upon his strict obedience. The link which connected him with the Lord God* was obedience, based on implicit confidence in the One who had set him in his position of dignity—confidence in His truth—confidence in His love. (“Genesis 2” by C.H. Mackintosh)

• Then, when all around was life, God spoke of death; now, on the contrary, when all around is death, God speaks of life: then the word was, “in the day thou eatest thou shalt die”; now the word is, “believe and live.” (“Genesis 2” by C.H. Mackintosh)

• Responsibility in obedience, and a sovereign source of life-the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life. (“Genesis 2” by J.N. Darby)

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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.