b) Sin removes the blessings of God: oh, if you would heed My commandments, then your peace would be like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea (Isa. XLVIII, 18). - Your iniquities have turned it away, and your sins have taken away this good thing from you (Jer. V, 25);

      c) everyone will be punished for his sin: fathers should not be punished with death for their children and children should not be punished with death for their fathers; everyone must be punished with death for his own crime (Deut. XXIV, 16). - For each will bear his own burden (Gal. VI, 5);

      d) Sin leads to remorse: Thy arrows have pierced me, and Thy hand weighs upon me. There is not a whole place in my flesh because of Thy wrath; there is no peace in my bones because of my sins (Ps. XXXVII, 3:4).—And thou shalt groan afterwards, when thy flesh and thy body shall be emaciated, and thou shalt say, Why have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof, and I have not listened to the voice of my teachers, nor have I inclined my ear to my guides? V, 11-13);

      e) to shame: we lie in our shame, and our shame covers us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God (Jer. III, 25);

      f) to tribulations: the foolish suffered for their iniquity, and for their iniquities (Ps. XVI p. 17). Thy ways and thy deeds have caused thee this: thy wickedness is so bitter to thee, that it comes to thy heart (Jer. IV, 18);

      g) to sickness: And I will do this to you: I will send upon you terror, stunting, and fever, from which the eyes will grow weary and the soul will be tormented, you will sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies will eat them up (Lev. XXVI, 16);

      (h) Sin is sometimes punished by premature and sudden death: these who spread evil fame about the earth died, having been smitten before the Lord (Num. XIV, 37). - Righteousness leads to life, but he who seeks evil seeks his death (Prov. XI, 19). - Suddenly, an angel of the Lord smote him (Herod) because he did not give glory to God; and he was eaten by worms, and died (Acts 2:10). XII, 23);

      i) God blots out the sinner from the Book of Life: the Lord said to Moses, "Whosoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book" (Exodus XXXII, 33). - And no unclean thing shall enter into it, nor shall any one who is given over to abomination and falsehood, but only those which are written in the Lamb's book of life (Ap. XXI, 27);

      j) Sin excludes from heaven: He (the Lord) will say: I say to you, I do not know where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast out (Luke 1:11). XIII 27, 28). Neither thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards who speak evil, nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Cor. VI, 10). Then he will say also to those on the left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.' And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life (Matt. XXV, 41,46);

      (k) The earth was cursed because of sin: He said to Adam, Because you listened to the voice of your wife, and ate of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. with sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles she will bring forth for you; and thou shalt eat the grass of the field (Gen. 2:10). III, 17, 18);

      l) labor and sickness appeared as a result of sin: he said to his wife: "Multiplying, I will multiply your sorrow in your pregnancy; in sickness you will bear children; and thy desire is for thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou returnest to the ground whence thou wast taken; for dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return" (Gen. 2:10). III, 16, 19);

      (m) Death is the consequence of sin: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt surely die (Gen. 2:10). II, 17). - Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; so death passed on to all men, because in him all sinned (Rom. V, 12). - But lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but the sin committed brings forth death (James 1:15).- The wages of sin is death, and the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. VI, 23);

      n) Grievous sins lead to a second, eternal death: but the fearful, and the unfaithful, and the filthy, and the murderers, and the fornicators, and the sorcerers, and the idolaters, and all liars, will have a fate in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death (Apoc. XXI, 8).