Romans 6:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Common English Bible

²³ The wages that sin pays are death, but God’s gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23 Cross References

Genesis 2:17

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

Proverbs 11:19

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but whoever pursues evil will die.

Isaiah 3:11

Woe to the guilty! How unfortunate they are, for what their hands have done shall be done to them.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them, for they have brought evil on themselves.

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins shall die. A child shall not suffer for the iniquity of a parent nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be their own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be their own.

Ezekiel 18:4

Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child is mine: it is only the person who sins who shall die.

Matthew 25:46

And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

John 17:2

since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life but must endure God’s wrath.

John 4:14

but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”

John 4:36

The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

John 5:24

Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”

John 6:40

This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.

Romans 2:7

to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life,

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned—

Romans 5:17

If, because of the one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 6:21

So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.

Romans 8:13

for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Romans 8:38

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

Romans 8:39

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:6

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.”

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began—

James 1:15

then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.

1 John 2:25

And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”