Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
New American Standard Bible
For the wages of
King James Version
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Holman Bible
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in 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.
A Conservative Version
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.
Amplified
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.
An Understandable Version
For the wages for sinning is [spiritual] death, but God's free gift is never ending life in [fellowship with] Christ Jesus our Lord.
Anderson New Testament
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal "life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Common New Testament
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Darby Translation
For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Godbey New Testament
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,
Goodspeed New Testament
For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
John Wesley New Testament
For death is the wages of sin; but eternal life is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Julia Smith Translation
For the purchasing the provisions of sin, death; and the grace of God, life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
King James 2000
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Modern King James verseion
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For the reward of sin is death: but eternal life is the gift of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Moffatt New Testament
Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Montgomery New Testament
FOR THE POOR WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR MASTER.
NET Bible
For the payoff of sin is death, but the 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 eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Noyes New Testament
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is everlasting life, through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Sawyer New Testament
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Emphasized Bible
For, the wages of sin, is death; but, God's gift of favour, is life age-abiding, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is life eternal in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Twentieth Century New Testament
The wages of Sin are Death, but the gift of God is Immortal Life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Webster
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.
Williams New Testament
For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with 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.
Worrell New Testament
for the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Worsley New Testament
For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Youngs Literal Translation
for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Themes
Condemnation » Inseparable consequence of sin
Consequences of sin » Death, physical and spiritual
death » Spiritual death » Eternal
eternal Death » The wages of sin
Error » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Eternal life » What is eternal life
Fall of man » Punishment consequent upon » eternal Death
the Gifts of God » Spiritual » Eternal life
Giving and gifts » The gift of God
God » Christ's » Gift of, salvation
Jesus Christ » Names of » Jesus Christ our lord
Eternal life » Given » Through Christ
Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Profit and loss » Loss » The wages of sin do not profit
Punishment of the The Wicked » Is the reward of their sins
Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » death
Salvation » By faith » God's gift
Sin » Conviction of, results of » Death, a penalty for
Sin » Penalty for » Death, physical and spiritual
Sin » Unpardonable, the » Wages of
Sinners » Conditions of » The gift of God
Sins » Penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
Transgression » Sin's penalty » Death, physical and spiritual
God, Trinity » Each person in, described as » Source of eternal life
Interlinear
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Devotionals
Devotionals about Romans 6:23
Devotionals containing Romans 6:23
References
Hastings
Morish
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 6:23
Prayers for Romans 6:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Set Free From Sin
22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Phrases
Cross References
Romans 5:12
For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
Genesis 2:17
But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
John 3:36
He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.
Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Ezekiel 18:4
See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.
Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
John 6:27
Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
John 6:40
This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.
Romans 5:21
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Galatians 6:7-8
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
James 1:15
Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
Isaiah 3:11
Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
John 3:14-17
As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:
John 4:14
But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.
John 5:24
Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
John 5:39-40
You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
John 6:32-33
Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:50-58
The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.
John 6:68
Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;
John 10:28
And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.
John 17:2
Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.
Romans 5:17
For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.
Romans 6:16
Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
Galatians 3:10
For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
Titus 1:2
In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;
1 Peter 1:3-4
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 John 2:25
And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.
1 John 5:11-12
And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.