Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 freed from sin and made slaves to God, ye have as your fruit sanctification and as the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Cross References

Romans 5:12

Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all 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 dost eat of it thou shalt surely die.

John 3:36

He that believes in the Son has eternal life, and he that does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

Romans 2:7

to those who persevered in well doing, glory and honour and incorruption, to those who seek eternal life;

Genesis 3:19

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

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 sins, it shall die.

Ezekiel 18:20

The soul that sins, 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 who is righteous, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him who is wicked.

Matthew 25:46

And they shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

John 6:27

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

John 6:40

And this is the will of him that sent me, That every one who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Romans 5:21

so that in the same manner as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.

Galatians 6:7-8

Do not deceive yourselves; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows that shall he also reap.

James 1:15

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part 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, for according to the work of his hands it shall be done unto him.

John 3:14-17

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

John 4:14

but whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.

John 5:24

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life and shall not come into judgment but has passed from death unto life.

John 5:39-40

Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life; and they are those who testify of me.

John 6:32-33

Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from the heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from the heaven.

John 6:50-58

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

John 6:68

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

John 10:28

and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of my hand.

John 17:2

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

Romans 5:17

For if by one offense, death reigned because of one man; much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of gifts and of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus the Christ.

Romans 6:16

Or know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves slaves to obey, his slaves ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of the obedience unto righteousness?

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals

Galatians 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 continues not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Titus 1:2

for the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the times of the ages

1 Peter 1:3-4

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

1 John 2:25

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

1 John 5:11-12

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

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