James 1:15
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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- Psalm 7:14 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
- Job 15:35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
- Romans 5:12–14 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.