Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

New American Standard Bible

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

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.

Bible in Basic English

For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ 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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

the wages
ὀψώνιον 
Opsonion 
Usage: 4

of sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

is death
θάνατος 
Thanatos 
Usage: 100

but
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

the gift
χάρισμα 
Charisma 
Usage: 17

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

is eternal
αἰώνιος 
Aionios 
Usage: 47

ζωή 
Zoe 
Usage: 88

ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

Ἰησοῦς 
Iesous 
Usage: 969

Χριστός 
christos 
Usage: 557

our
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

Devotionals

Devotionals about Romans 6:23

Devotionals containing Romans 6:23

Context Readings

Set Free From Sin

22 But now, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Cross References

Romans 5:12

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Genesis 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 of it thou shalt certainly die.

John 3:36

He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him.

Romans 2:7

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.

Ezekiel 18:4

Behold, all the 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.

Ezekiel 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 the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Matthew 25:46

And these shall go away into eternal punishment, and the righteous into life eternal.

John 6:27

Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto life eternal, which the Son of man shall give to you; for him has the Father sealed, even God.

John 6:40

For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Romans 5:21

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Galatians 6:7-8

Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall sow, that also shall he reap.

James 1:15

then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death.

Revelation 21:8

But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him, because the desert of his hands shall be rendered unto him.

John 3:14-17

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, thus must the Son of man be lifted up,

John 4:14

but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.

John 5:24

Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.

John 5:39-40

Ye search the scriptures, for ye think that in them ye have life eternal, and they it is which bear witness concerning me;

John 6:32-33

Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, It is not Moses that has given you the bread out of heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

John 6:50-58

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast words of life eternal;

John 10:28

and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand.

John 17:2

as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that as to all that thou hast given to him, he should give them life eternal.

Romans 5:17

For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

Romans 6:16

Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

Galatians 3:10

For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,

1 Peter 1:3-4

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise which he has promised us, life eternal.

1 John 5:11-12

And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.

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