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The Penalty of Sin

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 27.

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The Penalty of Sin

It is a common thing for Christian people to make strenuous endeavor, on the plea of mercy, in behalf of murderers sentenced to death, in order that life imprisonment may be substituted for the death penalty. Yet a majority of these same Christians will demur against the doctrine that death is the penalty of sin, claiming that it is not adequate punishment, and insisting that everlasting life imprisonment is the greater and more appropriate penalty. This inconsistency is the result of ignoring the plain teaching of the Scriptures: "The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. 6:23.