James 1:15

‘Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin, and the sin, when it is fullgrown (‘has come to completeness'), brings forth death.'

But sin does not stop there. Once lust has conceived and produced sin, that sin will grow within men and produce death. For once we have let sin in, it remains within and produces its own effect and we are never rid of it. So while response to testings and trials (‘peirasmoi') might lead to receiving the crown of life, yielding to temptation (‘peirasmos') to sin can only produce death. This is the story of sin. And it is one that can be laid at no other door than our own. Whatever the interference of others, even of Satan, man is thus ultimately responsible for his own sin.