What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

God's judgment often consists in giving people what they want and letting them experience the self-inflicted consequences of their choices. He allows them to choose ways of thinking and living that are self-destructive, tearing down the honor and dignity of others and themselves.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it. It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll.

So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.

This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.