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The Wages of Sin

Romans 6:23

In 9 translations

BSB
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
KJV
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
WEB
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 free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
LSV
for the wages of sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] continuous life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
YLT
for the wages of the sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
DBY
For the wages of sin [is] death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Elohim
DRC
For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
GNV
For the wages of sinne is death: but the gift of God is eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
τὰ γὰρ ὀψώνια τῆς ἁμαρτίας θάνατος, τὸ δὲ χάρισμα τοῦ θεοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.
RP2018
Τὰ γὰρ ὀψώνια τῆς ἁμαρτίας θάνατος, τὸ δὲ χάρισμα τοῦ θεοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.
TR-Boyd
Τὰ γὰρ ὀψώνια τῆς ἁμαρτίας θάνατος, τὸ δὲ χάρισμα τοῦ Θεοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.
SCR1894
τα γαρ οψωνια της αμαρτιας θανατος το δε χαρισμα του θεου ζωη αιωνιος εν χριστω ιησου τω κυριω ημων

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  • John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
  • Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
  • James 1:15Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
  • John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • Ezekiel 18:20The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the…
  • Matthew 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
  • John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
  • Ezekiel 18:4Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
  • Romans 2:7To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life.
  • Romans 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
  • Genesis 2:17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
  • Galatians 6:7–8Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the…
  • Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
  • Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
  • Romans 5:17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

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