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1 Corinthians 15:56 (WEB)
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

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“Man's sins, following on original sin, are punishable by death.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 5:12; I Cor 15:56.

Augustine of Hippo, Against Lying Chapter 40
“But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, life will swallow it up wholly, and not a sting of death will remain.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–56. [See R.V.]
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 6
““For the sting of death is sin.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 56.
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Augustine of Hippo, On Continence Chapter 7
“Thus the Law, Grace not helping, forbidding sin, became over and above the strength of sin; whence the Apostle saith, “The Law is the strength of sin.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 56
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIII.5Book XIII
““The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 56.
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Origen, De Principiis II.3Book II
“O death, thy sting has been swallowed up: the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 53–56; cf. Hos. xiii. 14 and Isa. xxv. 8.
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Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 51
“The sting of death is sin”—here is the corruption; “and the strength of sin is the law”—that other law, no doubt, which he has described “in his members as warring against the law of his mind,”—meaning, of course, the actual power of sinning against his will.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xv. 54–56.
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