Romans 6:23
Good News Translation
For sin pays its wage--death; but God's free gift is eternal life in union with 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.

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

For the wages.

Romans 5:12 Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Ezekiel 18:4,20 Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:9,10 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: . . .

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived: God is not mocked. . . .

James 1:15 Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

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Romans 2:7 To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

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

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

John 4:14 But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

John 5:24,39,40 Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life. . . .

John 6:27,32,33,40,50-58 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed. . . .

John 6:68 And Simon Peter answered him: Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

John 10:28 And I give them life everlasting: and they shall not perish for ever. And no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

John 17:2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

Titus 1:2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

1 Peter 1:3,4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: . . .

1 John 2:25 And this is the promise which he hath promised us, life everlasting.

1 John 5:11,12 And this is the testimony that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son. . . .

Context
The Wages of Sin
22But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. 23For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Cross References
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.

Proverbs 11:19
A perverse heart is abominable to the Lord: and his will is in them that walk sincerely.

Isaiah 3:9
The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Ezekiel 18:4
Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die.

Matthew 25:46
And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

John 4:36
And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

Romans 1:32
Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Romans 5:12
Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

Romans 5:21
That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:16
Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.

Romans 6:21
What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

Romans 8:6
For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.

Romans 8:38
For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might,

Romans 8:39
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 6:8
For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

James 1:15
Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.

Romans 6:22
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