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Romans 6:23 KJV
Romans · chapter 6 · verse 23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.Romans 6:23 · King James Version
What Romans 6:23 means
Wages are earned. A gift isn't. Paul sets the two side by side so you can see that everybody receives one or the other, and nobody gets both. Death is what sin pays out. Eternal life is handed to people who never worked a day for it.
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Romans 6:23 in context
21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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- eternalaiōnioswithout beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be, without…G166 →
- throughenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
- wagesopsōniona soldier's pay, allowance, that part of the soldier's support given in place of pay…G3800 →
- deaththanatosthe death of the body, that separation of the soul and the body by which the life on…G2288 →
- JesusiēsousJesus = " Jehovah is salvation" , Jesus, the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind…G2424 →
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The apostle's transition, which joins this discourse with the former, is observable: "What shall we say then? Rom 6:1. What use shall we make of this sweet and comfortable doctrine? Shall we do evil that good may come, as some say we do? Rom 3:8.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-23