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Romans 6:23

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

KJV

τὰ γὰρ ὀψώνια τῆς ἁμαρτίας θάνατος, τὸ δὲ χάρισμα τοῦ θεοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.

Greek NT

Stipendia enim peccati, mors. Gratia autem Dei, vita æterna, in Christo Jesu Domino nostro.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
αἰώνιος
aionios
adjective · 70×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
ζωή
zoe
noun · 135×
θάνατος
thanatos
noun · 120×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
χάρισμα
charisma
noun · 17×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὀψώνιον
opsonion
noun · 4×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

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21 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1006"It is in regard to death that man's condition is most shrouded in doubt."565 In a sense bodily death is natural, but for faith it is in fact "the wages of sin."566 For those who die in Christ's grace it is a participation in the death of the Lord, so that they can also share his Resurrection.567
§1008Death is a consequence of sin. the Church's Magisterium, as authentic interpreter of the affirmations of Scripture and Tradition, teaches that death entered the world on account of man's sin.569 Even though man's nature is mortal God had destined him not to die. Death was therefore contrary to the plans of God the Creator and entered the world as a consequence of sin.570 "Bodil…
Jesus Christ was not a mere man, begotten from Joseph in the ordinary course of nature, but was very God, begotten of the Father most high, and very man, born of the Virgin. 1. But again, those who assert that He was simply a mere man, begotten by Joseph, remaining in the bondage of the old disobedience, are in a state of death having been not as yet joined to the Word of God t…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210212.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. Calvin shows that Paul refutes the charge of antinomianism. Those who have been united with Christ in his death are dead to sin and alive to God. Baptism signifies this union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. Sin shall not have dominion over the believer, for we are not under law but under grace. The …
Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…
Summa Theologica · 7 passages
Can any created intellect see the essence of God? Is the essence of God seen by the intellect through any created image? Can the essence of God be seen by the corporeal eye? Is any created intellectual substance sufficient by its own natural powers to see the essence of God? Does the created intellect need any created light in order to see the essence of God? Of those who see G…
Without grace, can man know anything? Without God's grace, can man do or wish any good? Without grace, can man love God above all things? Without grace, can man keep the commandments of the Law? Without grace, can he merit eternal life? Without grace, can man prepare himself for grace? Without grace, can he rise from sin? Without grace, can man avoid sin? Having received grace,…
Can a man merit anything from God? Without grace, can anyone merit eternal life? May anyone with grace merit eternal life condignly? Is it chiefly through the instrumentality of charity that grace is the principle of merit? May a man merit the first grace for himself? May he merit it for someone else? Can anyone merit restoration after sin? Can he merit for himself an increase …
…and 4 more from this source.
If anyone does not confess that the first man, Adam, when he had transgressed the commandment of God in Paradise, immediately lost the holiness and justice wherein he had been constituted; and that he incurred, through the offense of that prevarication, the wrath and indignation of God, and consequently death, with which God had previously threatened him, and together with deat…
Canons of Dort · 3 passages
Since all people have sinned in Adam and have come under the sentence of the curse and eternal death, God would have done no one an injustice if it had been his will to leave the entire human race in sin and under the curse, and to condemn them on account of their sin. As the apostle says: "The whole world is liable to the condemnation of God" (Rom. 3:19), "All have sinned and …
God is not only supremely merciful, but also supremely just. His justice requires (as he has revealed himself in the Word) that the sins we have committed against his infinite majesty be punished with both temporal and eternal punishments, of soul as well as body. We cannot escape these punishments unless satisfaction is given to God's justice.
The Synod rejects the errors of those who teach that, properly speaking, it cannot be said that original sin in itself is enough to condemn the whole human race or to warrant temporal and eternal punishments. For they contradict the apostle when he says: "Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death passed on to all because all sinned" (Ro…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • 1Cor 15:21 — For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
  • 1Cor 15:56 — The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
  • 1John 2:25 — And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
  • 1John 5:11 — And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • 1John 5:11 — And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • 1Pet 1:3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  • 1Tim 1:16 — Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
  • 2Cor 1:20 — For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
  • 2Cor 9:15 — Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
  • Acts 10:43 — To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
  • Acts 15:11 — But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
  • Ezek 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, it shall die.
  • Ezek 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, it shall die.
  • Ezek 18:20 — The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 6:7 — Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
  • Gen 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.
  • Gen 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.
  • Gen 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.
  • Gen 6:17 — And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
  • Heb 9:15 — And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive th
  • Isa 3:11 — Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
  • Jas 1:15 — Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
  • Jas 1:17 — Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
  • John 3:14 — And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
  • John 3:36 — He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
  • John 4:14 — But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
  • John 4:14 — But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
  • John 4:15 — The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
  • John 5:24 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
  • John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
  • John 5:40 — And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
  • John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
  • John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
  • John 6:32 — Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
  • John 6:40 — And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • John 6:40 — And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • John 6:50 — This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.