Romans 6:23

God's Word

The payment for sin is death, but the gift that God freely gives is everlasting life found in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 2:17

But you must never eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because when you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your brow, you will produce food to eat until you return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Proverbs 11:19

As righteousness leads to life, so whoever pursues evil finds his own death.

Isaiah 3:11

How horrible it will be for the wicked! Disaster will strike them. What they have done will be done to them.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces will be held against them. They boast about their sins, which are like ⌞those of the people of⌟ Sodom. They don’t even bother to hide them. How horrible it will be for these people, because they have brought disaster on themselves.

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins will die. A son will not be punished for his father’s sins, and a father will not be punished for his son’s sins. The righteousness of the righteous person will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be his own.

Ezekiel 18:4

The life of every person belongs to me. Fathers and their children belong to me. The person who sins will die.

Matthew 25:46

“These people will go away into eternal punishment, but those with God’s approval will go into eternal life.”

John 10:28

and I give them eternal life. They will never be lost, and no one will tear them away from me.

John 17:2

After all, you’ve given him authority over all humanity so that he can give eternal life to all those you gave to him.

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, he will see God’s constant anger.”

John 4:14

But those who drink the water that I will give them will never become thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give them will become in them a spring that gushes up to eternal life.”

John 4:36

The person who harvests the crop is already getting paid. He is gathering grain for eternal life. So the person who plants the grain and the person who harvests it are happy together.

John 5:24

I can guarantee this truth: Those who listen to what I say and believe in the one who sent me will have eternal life. They won’t be judged because they have already passed from death to life.

John 6:27

Don’t work for food that spoils. Instead, work for the food that lasts into eternal life. This is the food the Son of Man will give you. After all, the Father has placed his seal of approval on him.”

John 6:40

My Father wants all those who see the Son and believe in him to have eternal life. He wants me to bring them back to life on the last day.”

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered Jesus, “Lord, to what person could we go? Your words give eternal life.

Romans 1:32

Although they know God’s judgment that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do these things but also approve of others who do them.

Romans 2:7

He will give everlasting life to those who search for glory, honor, and immortality by persisting in doing what is good. But he will bring

Romans 5:12

Sin came into the world through one person, and death came through sin. So death spread to everyone, because everyone sinned.

Romans 5:17

It is certain that death ruled because of one person’s failure. It’s even more certain that those who receive God’s overflowing kindness and the gift of his approval will rule in life because of one person, Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:21

As sin ruled by bringing death, God’s kindness would rule by bringing us his approval. This results in our living forever because of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:16

Don’t you know that if you offer to be someone’s slave, you must obey that master? Either your master is sin, or your master is obedience. Letting sin be your master leads to death. Letting obedience be your master leads to God’s approval.

Romans 6:21

What did you gain by doing those things? You’re ashamed of what you used to do because it ended in death.

Romans 8:13

If you live by your corrupt nature, you are going to die. But if you use your spiritual nature to put to death the evil activities of the body, you will live.

Romans 8:38

I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separated by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces

Romans 8:39

or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation.

Romans 8:6

The corrupt nature’s attitude leads to death. But the spiritual nature’s attitude leads to life and peace.

Galatians 3:10

Certainly, there is a curse on all who rely on their own efforts because Scripture says, “Whoever doesn’t obey everything that is written in Moses’ Teachings is cursed.”

Titus 1:2

My message is based on the confidence of eternal life. God, who never lies, promised this eternal life before the world began.

James 1:15

Then desire becomes pregnant and gives birth to sin. When sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

1 John 2:25

Christ has given us the promise of eternal life.

Revelation 21:8

But cowardly, unfaithful, and detestable people, murderers, sexual sinners, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”