I believe to be released from the consequences of sin is to be justified and born again and finally glorified.
If a person is not released from the consequences of sin in this life, he continues alienated from the life of God, and after this temporal existence, in the place of the "second death."
The second death is destruction of soul and body apart from God.
God is free and just to release one in this life from that death, since Christ suffered that death for sins. But if one does not believe in Christ for that salvation, they continue in that death, after this existence, in the place of the second death.
To exist apart from God in that condition is the consequence, the destruction of both body and soul.
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