The wages of sin is death.
For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The wages of sin is death. Sin earns what it deserves. The payment for sin is death — spiritual death, physical death, and the second death. This is the just consequence of transgressing the law of God. But the verse does not end with death. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Wages are earned; the gift is freely given. Where sin brings death, grace brings life. The cross is the place where the wages of sin were paid by Christ for all who believe.
- The wages of sin is death.
- Death is the just payment for sin.
- The gift of God is eternal life.
- Eternal life is through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Wages are earned; the gift is free.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
All have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God.
Being justified freely by his grace.
- Romans 6:23 is the key text.
- Wages are what is earned; sin earns death.
- Death includes separation from God and the second death.
- The gift of God stands in contrast to wages.
- Eternal life is in Jesus Christ, not in human effort.
- Romans 5:12 traces death to the entrance of sin.
- Wages – What sin earns.
- Death – The payment for sin.
- Justice – The just consequence of transgression.
- Gift – Eternal life is the gift of God.
- Through Christ – Life is in Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Contrast – Earned death versus freely given life.
- Romans 6:23 – “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
- Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”
- Romans 5:12 – “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”
- Romans 6:16 – “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
- Genesis 2:17 – “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
- Isaiah 53:5-6 – “But he was wounded for our transgressions… and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 – “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
- Romans 5:20-21 – “But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound… that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.”
- Ephesians 2:1, 8-9 – “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins… For by grace are ye saved through faith.”
- Revelation 20:14-15 – “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
- 1 Peter 2:24 – “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree.”
- Romans 8:2 – “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
The wages of sin is death. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Wages are earned; the gift is free.
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