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NASB | Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 6:23 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. |
Bible Question: what is the wages of sin? |
Bible Answer: Greetings Wisdom111, I think a lot of times we try to make more out of something then is actually there. Wages, plain pure and simple, are something that we have coming to us as a result of what we justly earned and deserve. I.e. God says we all have death coming to us because we all have sinned. The antithesis or opposite of earning something as the verse in Romans 6:22 states is a gift. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. It’s interesting to note that the word “but” in the English is the word DE in the Koine Greek, which is a contrastive conjunction. God is explaining to us that our “wages”, which is death, is in direct contrast to God’s eternal life which He offering to give us as a Gift. Here comes the strange part, at least it seem that way to me. We can’t really get eternal life by it’s self but if we have something else, eternal life is, well, a by product of the other object. That object is God’s Son Jesus, the special appointed one of God. Check out this next verse and couple it with the Gift of God. 1 John 5:10-13 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. (11) And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. [12] He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. [13] These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. That Gift of God, eternal life, is the automatic result of believing on, or trusting in and relying on the person of Jesus. John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: With wages, we get the credit, death; with the gift of God, all we can do is accept it by believing what God tells us and give Him all the credit. It’s God’s love gift to us by the death of His Son in our place. The sins of the world were poured out an Christ and judged, he took our punishment and offers us His righteousness. 2 Cor. 5:21 For he hath made him (Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. I sure get excited about something that is so fantastic and I have a hard time stopping. I sure hope that all that have read this have come to the point where they have put “all” of the faith and hope and trust in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ! The moment they do it will be the greatest day of their life. With a better day yet to come, CDBJ |