The consequences of sin are far-reaching, separating humanity from a holy God and leading to spiritual death, as stated in Romans 6:23. According to Isaiah 59:2, sin creates a barrier between God and humanity, hindering a right relationship with Him. The Bible teaches that sin entered the world through Adam, as recorded in Romans 5:12, and that all people have sinned, falling short of God's glory, as stated in Romans 3:23. However, 1 Corinthians 10:13 offers hope, assuring believers that God is faithful to provide a way of escape from temptation, allowing them to overcome sin's effects.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.