Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

Bible References

Sting

Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Psalm 90:3
Thou wilt turn man even to crushing, and thou wilt say, Turn back, ye sons of man.
Proverbs 14:32
The unjust one shall be driven away in his evil: and the just one trusted in his death.
John 8:21
Then said Jesus again to them, I retire, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I retire, ye cannot come.
Romans 5:15
But not as the fall, so also the favor. For if for the fall of one many died, much more the grace of God, and the gift in grace, of one man, Jesus Christ, has abounded to many.
Romans 6:23
For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hebrews 9:27
And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment:

The strength

Romans 3:19
And we know that whatever says the law, it speaks to them in the law: that every mouth be shut, and all the world be culpable to God.
Romans 4:15
For the law works wrath: for where is no law, no transgression.
Romans 5:13
(For until the law sin was in the world: and sin is not charged, being no law.
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it has been written, Cursed every one who remains not in all written in the book of the law to do them.