Romans 6:23

New Century Version

The payment for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Cross References

John 3:36

Those who believe in the Son have eternal life, but those who do not obey the Son will never have life. God’s anger stays on them.”

Romans 5:12

Sin came into the world because of what one man did, and with sin came death. This is why everyone must die—because everyone sinned.

James 1:15

This desire leads to sin, and then the sin grows and brings death.

John 6:40

Those who see the Son and believe in him have eternal life, and I will raise them on the last day. This is what my Father wants.”

Matthew 25:46

“These people will go off to be punished forever, but the good people will go to live forever.”

Ezekiel 18:20

The person who sins is the one who will die. A child will not be punished for a parent’s sin, and a parent will not be punished for a child’s sin. Those who do right will enjoy the results of their own goodness; evil people will suffer the results of their own evil.

Ezekiel 18:4

Every living thing belongs to me. The life of the parent is mine, and the life of the child is mine. The person who sins is the one who will die.

John 5:24

“I tell you the truth, whoever hears what I say and believes in the One who sent me has eternal life. That person will not be judged guilty but has already left death and entered life.

Romans 5:21

Sin once used death to rule us, but God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. And this brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 2:7

Some people, by always continuing to do good, live for God’s glory, for honor, and for life that has no end. God will give them life forever.

Genesis 2:17

but you must not eat the fruit from the tree which gives the knowledge of good and evil. If you ever eat fruit from that tree, you will die!”

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, and they will never die, and no one can steal them out of my hand.

Revelation 21:8

But cowards, those who refuse to believe, who do evil things, who kill, who sin sexually, who do evil magic, who worship idols, and who tell lies—all these will have a place in the lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Titus 1:2

That faith and that knowledge come from the hope for life forever, which God promised to us before time began. And God cannot lie.

Romans 5:17

One man sinned, and so death ruled all people because of that one man. But now those people who accept God’s full grace and the great gift of being made right with him will surely have true life and rule through the one man, Jesus Christ.

Romans 6:16

Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves of that person. The person you obey is your master. You can follow sin, which brings spiritual death, or you can obey God, which makes you right with him.

John 17:2

You gave the Son power over all people so that the Son could give eternal life to all those you gave him.

Genesis 3:19

You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust.”

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, who would we go to? You have the words that give eternal life.

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that spoils. Work for the food that stays good always and gives eternal life. The Son of Man will give you this food, because on him God the Father has put his power.”

Isaiah 3:11

But how terrible it will be for the wicked! They will be punished for all the wrong they have done.

1 John 2:25

And this is what the Son promised to us—life forever.

Galatians 3:10

But those who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse, because the Scriptures say, “Anyone will be cursed who does not always obey what is written in the Book of the Law.”

John 4:14

but whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty. The water I give will become a spring of water gushing up inside that person, giving eternal life.”

Proverbs 11:19

Those who are truly good will live, but those who chase after evil will die.

Isaiah 3:9

The look on their faces shows they are guilty; like the people of Sodom, they are proud of their sin. They don’t care who sees it. How terrible it will be for them, because they have brought much trouble on themselves.

John 4:36

Already, the one who harvests is being paid and is gathering crops for eternal life. So the one who plants and the one who harvests celebrate at the same time.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s law says that those who live like this should die. But they themselves not only continue to do these evil things, they applaud others who do them.

Romans 6:21

You did evil things, and now you are ashamed of them. Those things only bring death.

Romans 8:6

If people’s thinking is controlled by the sinful self, there is death. But if their thinking is controlled by the Spirit, there is life and peace.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, you will have true life.

Romans 8:38

Yes, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers,

Romans 8:39

nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.