Romans 6:23
New International Version
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New Living Translation
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

English Standard Version
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Berean Standard Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Berean Literal Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

King James Bible
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

New King James Version
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New American Standard Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

NASB 1995
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

NASB 1977
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amplified Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God [that is, His remarkable, overwhelming gift of grace to believers] is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Christian Standard Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

American Standard Version
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But the product of sin is death and the gift of God is eternal life in our Lord Yeshua The Messiah.

Contemporary English Version
Sin pays off with death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

English Revised Version
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The payment for sin is death, but the gift that God freely gives is everlasting life found in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Good News Translation
For sin pays its wage--death; but God's free gift is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

International Standard Version
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah Jesus our Lord.

Literal Standard Version
for the wages of sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] continuous life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Majority Standard Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New American Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

NET Bible
For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New Heart English Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Weymouth New Testament
For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

World English Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Wages of Sin
22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Cross References
Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."

Proverbs 11:19
Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

Isaiah 3:9
The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Ezekiel 18:4
Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.

Matthew 25:46
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

John 4:36
Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

Romans 1:32
Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.


Treasury of Scripture

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the wages.

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:

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.

Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

but the.

Romans 2:7
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

Romans 5:17,21
For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) …

John 3:14-17,36
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: …

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Romans 6
1. We may not live in sin;
2. for we are dead unto it;
3. as appears by our baptism.
12. Let not sin reign anymore;
18. because we have yielded ourselves to the service of righteousness;
23. and because death is the wages of sin.














(23) The gift of God.--The natural antithesis would be "wages;" but this would here be inappropriate, and therefore the Apostle substitutes "the free gift." In spite of your sanctification as Christians, still you will not have earned eternal life; it is the gift of God's grace.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

the
τὰ (ta)
Article - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

wages
ὀψώνια (opsōnia)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3800: Neuter of a presumed derivative of the same as opsarion; rations for a soldier, i.e. his stipend or pay.

of sin
ἁμαρτίας (hamartias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin.

[is] death,
θάνατος (thanatos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2288: Death, physical or spiritual. From thnesko; death.

but
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

gift
χάρισμα (charisma)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5486: From charizomai; a gratuity, i.e. Deliverance;, a endowment, i.e. religious qualification, or miraculous faculty.

of God
Θεοῦ (Theou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.

[is] eternal
αἰώνιος (aiōnios)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 166: From aion; perpetual.

life
ζωὴ (zōē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2222: Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. From zao; life.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

Christ
Χριστῷ (Christō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5547: Anointed One; the Messiah, the Christ. From chrio; Anointed One, i.e. The Messiah, an epithet of Jesus.

Jesus
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

our
ἡμῶν (hēmōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

Lord.
Κυρίῳ (Kyriō)
Noun - Dative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.


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