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

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Rom. 4:15• ¹⁵Because the law worketh wrath: for 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 the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
¹⁸Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
¹⁹In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto 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 turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
⁴For a thousand years in thy sight are but 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 which 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 wrath are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. (Psa. 90:3‑11)

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Prov. 14:32• ³²The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. (Prov. 14:32)

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John 8:21,24• ²¹Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
²⁴I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. (John 8:21,24)

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Rom. 5:15,17• ¹⁵But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
¹⁷For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) (Rom. 5:15,17)

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

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Heb. 9:27• ²⁷And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Heb. 9:27)

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Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 4:15• ¹⁵Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. (Rom. 4:15)

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Rom. 5:13,20• ¹³(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
²⁰Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: (Rom. 5:13,20)

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Rom. 7:5‑13• ⁵For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
⁶But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
⁸But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
⁹For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
¹⁰And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
¹²Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
¹³Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; 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 of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
¹¹But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
¹²And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
¹³Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made 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”)

• Does the law of Moses give relief. On the contrary, 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.) (“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)

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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;