Romans 6:23 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 6:23

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For the wages of sin is death; but the free 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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book III (202)

But again, those who assert that He was simply a mere man, begotten by Joseph, remaining in the bondage of the old disobedience, are in a state of death having been not as yet joined to the Word of God the Father, nor receiving liberty through the Son, as He does Himself declare: "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Death - Temporal, spiritual, and eternal. Is the due wages of sin; but eternal life is the gift of God - The difference is remarkable. Evil works merit the reward they receive: good works do not.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Death is as due to a sinner when he hath sinned as wages are to a servant when he hath done his work. This is true of every sin. There is no sin in its own nature venial.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

There is no proportion between the glory of heaven and our obedience; we must thank God, and not ourselves, if ever we get to heaven. And this gift is through Jesus Christ our Lord. It is Christ that purchased it, prepared it, prepares us for it, preserves us to it; he is the Alpha and Omega, All in all in our salvation.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the wages of sin - The word translated here “wages” ὀψώνια opsōnia properly denotes what is purchased to be eaten with bread, as fish, flesh, vegetables, etc. (Schleusner); and thence, it means the pay of the Roman soldier, because formerly it was the custom to pay the soldier in these things. It means hence, what a man earns or deserves; what is his proper pay, or what he merits. As applied to sin, it means that death is what sin deserves; what will be its proper reward.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

(1885)

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τὰ	ta	The	G3588 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ὀψώνια	opsōnia	wages	G3800 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ἁμαρτίας	hamartias	of sin	G266 →
θάνατος,	thanatos	[is] death,	G2288 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	but	G1161 →
χάρισμα	charisma	the gift	G5486 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ	theou	of God	G2316 →
ζωὴ	zōē	life	G2222 →
αἰώνιος	aiōnios	eternal	G166 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
Χριστῷ	Christō	Christ	G5547 →
Ἰησοῦ	Iēsou	Jesus	G2424 →
τῷ	tō	the	G3588 →
κυρίῳ	kuriō	Lord	G2962 →
ἡμῶν.¶	hēmōn	of us.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
leads to
- John 5:24
  Truly, 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 1:12
  But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
Through
Romans 5:12
Therefore, 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.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:21–22
  For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
- Genesis 2:17
  but 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.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 5:19
  For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
- Romans 3:23
  for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Through
Ezekiel 18:20
The 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…
leads to
- 2 Kings 14:6
  Yet he did not put the sons of the murderers to death, but acted according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not…
- Deuteronomy 24:16
  Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

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