effects of sin
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23For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2But your iniquities have made a division between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you, so that he would not hear.
12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into this world, and through sin, death; so also death was transferred to all men, to all who have sinned.
23For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.
13Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.
8Whoever commits sin is of the devil. For the devil sins from the beginning. For this reason, the Son of God appeared, so that he might eradicate the works of the devil.
15Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.
4Everyone who commits a sin, also commits iniquity. For sin is iniquity.
9Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, 10nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God. 11And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
8But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all liars, these shall be a part of the pool burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
28And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
2Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.
34Jesus answered them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.