New Revised Standard Version
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Contemporary English Version
Sin is what gives death its sting, and the Law is the power behind sin.

New American Bible
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

sting.

Genesis 3:17-19 And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work: with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. . . .

Psalm 90:3-11 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. . . .

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

John 8:21,24 Again therefore Jesus said to them: I go: and you shall seek me. And you shall die in your sin. Whither I go, you cannot come. . . .

Romans 5:15,17 But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of one, many died: much more the grace of God and the gift, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. . . .

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

the strength.

Romans 3:19,20 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God. . . .

Romans 4:15 For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 5:13,20 For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed, when the law was not. . . .

Romans 7:5-13 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. . . .

Galatians 3:10-13 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. . . .