Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, 1 until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. 1 For dust you are, and to dust you will return.”
Ezekiel 18:4Behold! Every life belong to me—the life of the father as well as the life of the son, they belong to me! The soul who sins is the one who will die!
Matthew 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
John 3:36He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God stays on him.”
John 5:24Truly, truly, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but he has passed from death to life.
John 6:27Do not work for the food that perishes, but work for the food that endures to eternal life which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has set his seal on him.”
Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23
On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →