We therefore must consider ourselves "dead to sin, but All their salvation will be ascribed to him; and they will celebrate his mercy and grace forever. Romans 6:23 Matthew 13:45-46 He protested racial legislation in South Africa and led civil disobedience campaigns in his native India in order to secure home rule. 23 For the wages of sin is death, It is crucial to see that the … Romans 5:21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Because His law was in effect, God has ascribed sin to man from the beginning. The phrase is opposed to death; and proves incontestably that that means eternal death. Luke 16:19-31 This should give us a better understanding of this verse. In sharp contrast with wages. No man can conceive a more dreadful doom than for himself to be treated forever just as he deserves to be. He will suffer just as much, and just as long, as he ought to suffer. But the gift of God — Greek, χαρισμα, the free gift, or gift of grace; is eternal life — Or, eternal life is the free gift of God. Paul writes in Romans 5:8, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Once this substitute gave his life, it would apply to all mankind for all time! Young's [For more on sin, what it is and what it does, see commentary on 1 John 1:7, “sin.” For the Old Testament statement that the wage of righteousness is life, see commentary on Proverbs 10:16. (1) That the one will be as long as the other. Galatians 3:16 Does Scripture Allow for Killing in Self-Defense? He does not explain away the free grace of the gospel, but he shows that connexion between justification and holiness are inseparable. 44. Matthew 8:2 This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. Matthew 17:19-21 Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 Sermon Bible Commentary. Amplified® Not a pain will be inflicted on the sinner which he does not deserve. 55. Leviticus : NIV: New International Version . 1.Geneva Study Bible{11} For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[ a] Christ Jesus our Lord. Shame came into the world with sin, and is still the certain effect of it. Romans 7:4 (4) they who are saved will be raised to heaven, not because they merit it, but by the rich and sovereign grace of God. (11) Death is the punishment due to sin, but we are sanctified freely, to everlasting life. “The apostle does not call everlasting life οψωνια, the wages which God gives to his servants, because they do not merit it by their services, as the slaves of sin merit death by theirs: but he calls it a free gift, or gift of grace; or, as Estius would render the expression, a donative; because, being freely bestowed, it may be compared to the donatives which the Roman generals, of their own good- will, bestowed on their soldiers as a mark of their favour.” We may now see the apostle’s method thus far: — 1st, Bondage to sin, Romans 3:9. 3. K.J.V. 1. 1 John 3:4 (Read Romans 6:1,2) The apostle is very full in pressing the necessity of holiness. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 Zohar in Gen. fol. I.S.V. (1) Because it is its proper desert. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. But,(2) This is the wages of sin, because, like the pay of the soldier, it is just what was threatened, Ezekiel 18:4, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." That would make Romans 6:23 a lie, and it’s not a lie, it’s the truth. Revelation 2:14-15 2d, The knowledge of sin by the law, a sense of God’s wrath, inward death, Romans 3:20. By using this term, the apostle shows what sort of pay the usurper, sin, gives to those who serve under his banners. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. All grace is the gift of God, and is freely given, or otherwise it would not be grace; particularly the justifying righteousness of Christ is the gift of God; and the rather this may be meant here, since the apostle had been treating of it so largely before, and had so often, in the preceding chapter, called it the gift of righteousness, the free gift, and gift by grace, and justification by it, the justification of life, because it entitles to eternal life, as here: it may be said to issue in it; for between justification and glorification there is a sure and close connection; they that are justified by the righteousness of Christ, are certainly glorified, or enjoy eternal life; and though this may be principally intended here, yet is not to be understood to the exclusion of other gifts of grace, which have the same connection and issue: thus, for instance, faith is the gift of God, and not of a man's self, and he that has it, has eternal life, and shall, Or ever possess it; repentance is a free grace gift, it is a grant from the Lord, and it is unto life and salvation; and on whomsoever the grace of God is bestowed, so as to believe in Christ for righteousness, and truly repent of sin, these shall partake of eternal glory. None so blessed as he who has part in the mercy of God, and who lays hold on eternal life. Let the thought be abhorred, of continuing in sin that grace may abound. Vajikra Rabba, parash. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary6:21-23 The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. Instead, we should live as if righteousness was our master, which, in a sense, it is. Or do you not know that as many of us … In addition, this person had to be of such importance and stature in his own right that his vicarious death to pay for other men's sins would never have to be repeated. Genesis 2:7 So long as we know no principle of obedience but the terrors of the law, which condemns all the breakers of it, and knows nothing whatever of grace, either to pardon the guilty or to purify the stained, we are shut up under a moral impossibility of genuine and acceptable obedience: whereas when Grace lifts us out of this state, and through union to a righteous Surety, brings us into a state of conscious reconciliation, and loving surrender of heart to a God of salvation, we immediately feel the glorious liberty to be holy, and the assurance that "Sin shall not have dominion over us" is as sweet to our renewed tastes and aspirations as the ground of it is felt to be firm, "because we are not under the Law, but under Grace." God looks at these things in an interesting way. Zohar in Gen. fol. As applied to sin, it means that death is what sin deserves; what will be its proper reward. Not a sinner will die who ought not to die. One sinner accounts his life to be of more worth than the life of another sinner. 55. The phrase is opposed to death; and proves incontestably that that means eternal death. God says that the "wages" of sin—that is, what you "earn" for transgressing God's law—is death. Coming on the heels of Paul’s discussion of baptism in Romans 6:1-11, our passage for the Second Sunday after Pentecost serves as a corrective to a potential misunderstanding. Introduction 1:1-17. Leviticus 4:20 If God is speaking to you about any area of your life, obey him now. We find both aspects applied to practical Christian life in Romans. Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleFor the wages of sin is death,.... By sin, is meant every sin, original sin, actual sin, every kind of sin, lesser and greater: the "death" which sin deserves, is a corporeal death; which is not owing to the original nature and constitution of men; nor merely to the divine appointment; but to sin, and the decree of God, on account of it; which is inflicted on Christless sinners, as a punishment for sin, though not on believers as such, because Christ has took away the sting and curse of it: a death of diseases and afflictions also follows upon sin, as its proper demerit; which are properly punishments to wicked men, and are occasioned by sin in believers: there is a death of the soul, which comes by sin, which lies in an alienation from God, in a loss of the image of God, and in a servitude to sin; and there is an eternal death, the just wages of sin, which lies in a separation of soul and body from God, and in a sense of divine wrath to all eternity; and which is here meant, as is clear from its antithesis, "eternal life", in the next clause. Genesis 3:4 (3) if the sinner is lost, he will deserve to die. Genesis 3:4 4. Sinners even in hell will be treated just as they deserve to be treated; and there is not to man a more fearful and terrible consideration than this. John W. Ritenbaugh For more on the figure of speech personification, see commentary on Prov. Answer: Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” At its core, sin is rebellion against God. He will suffer as the culprit pines in the dungeon, or as the murderer dies on the gibbet, because this is the proper reward of sin. The death we are intended to understand is the second death. Not a pain will be inflicted on the sinner which he does not deserve. Death, then, is what we "earn" as a result of committing sin. The revelation of the righteousness of God in Christ through the gospel Romans 3:21 4. It is essential that we thoroughly understand that Christ died, not merely as a benefit, but for us, that is, in our place. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. From this condemnation the believer is set at liberty, when made free from sin. I. St. Paul is setting before us in a figure the choice of two lives—the life of a Christian, life in Christ, and the life of one who is not a Christian, who has not the Christian's aim nor the Christian's hope. This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. The Bereans "received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts 17:10-11). (11) Death is the punishment due to sin, but we are sanctified freely, to everlasting life. When confronted by such scriptures that cannot be broken, our only possible conclusion is that the sin-debt that each person owes to God absolutely cannot be worked off. For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. Actually, it is something that begins whenever we accept the blood of Jesus Christ. If the fruit is unto holiness, if there is an active principle of true and growing grace, the end will be everlasting life; a very happy end! It is so huge and serious that an already sin-defiled person cannot pay it off. (NASB: Lockman)Greek: ta gar opsonia tes hamartias thanatos to de charisma tou theou z oe aionios en Christo Iesou to kurio hemon. Sabbat, fol. 1-11), Paul established that, in our baptism, we became new creatures—died with Christ and were resurrected to new life with him. Though some think that we already have an immortal soul, the Bible makes it plain that the only way we can receive eternal life is to receive it as God's gift. Like the penalties of sin, freedom or salvation does not come all at once. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Cohen de Lara, Ir. But. Scripture: Romans 6:8-10, Romans 6:23, Colossians 3:13-14, John 20:5-7, Matthew 28:5-6 (view more) (view less) Denomination: Christian Church What It Means To Live Free In Jesus Christ Series Jesus Christ our Lord—This concluding verse—as pointed as it is brief—contains the marrow, the most fine gold, of the Gospel. (Schleusner); and thence, it means the pay of the Roman soldier, because formerly it was the custom to pay the soldier in these things. Ye that read or hear these words, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live!" (2) The fundamental principle of Gospel obedience is as original as it is divinely rational; that "we are set free from the law in order to keep it, and are brought graciously under servitude to the law in order to be free" (Ro 6:14, 15, 18). Galatians 2:10 If you don’t, go repent, get them and make sure you have them stored in your heart, because these are your basic foundation. 1:20. Genesis 3:1-4 Grace is a gift of God, and it is not something that happens only once but constantly. The Choice of Life. Why? 21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? Sinners even in hell will be treated just as they deserve to be treated; and there is not to man a more fearful and terrible consideration than this. He will have no one to take his part against God. The apostle is careful to distinguish, and to specify thai this is not what man deserves, but what is gratuitously conferred on him; Note, Romans 6:15. We are sinners, and so we sinned against God, earning the just wrath of a holy God for our sin against him and his kingdom. Romans 6 Romans 6:23 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. This is not eternal life in hell fire but death, the complete annihilation of one's life. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. Matthew 13:45-46 Romans 13:1-5 Shame came into the world with sin, and is still the certain effect of it. The answer is found in the second half of verse 23. His death substitutes for our well-deserved death, which we earned through sin. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary23. Luke : 2 Corinthians 3:7 God offers eternal life to those who are willing to meet His conditions. (6) Death and life are before all men who hear the Gospel: the one, the natural issue and proper reward of sin; the other, the absolutely free "GIFT OF God" to sinners, "in Jesus Christ our Lord." Leviticus : A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independ … Yet the punishment of the wicked is said to be eternal. He was especially noted for his commitment to non-violent ways, his self-discipline and denial, as well as his championing of the underclass within the caste system. Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Romans 6:23: Genesis 2:1-3 Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. God will not inflict anything more than was threatened, and therefore it is just. Galatians 4:7 Explanation: Romans 6:23 Romans 6:23: For the wage of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Christ Jesus our Lord. Colossians 2:13-14 NASB E-Prime 1. The end of sin is death. 5th, Justification, whereby God forgives all past sin, and freely accepts the sinner, Romans 3:24. Now this is "the wages" of sin; sin does in its own nature produce it, and excludes from life; it is the natural issue of it; sin is committed against an infinite God, and righteously deserves such a death; it is its just wages by law. Christ says, "I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly." Hebrews : No man can conceive a more dreadful doom than for himself to be treated forever just as he deserves to be. Breaking Down the Key Parts of Romans 6:23 #1 “For the wages of sin is death,” Sadly, our death is earned not only by our father Adam’s rebellion but by our own. 7th, The free service of righteousness, Romans 6:23. Romans 3:25 Matthew Poole's Commentary q.d. “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23, ESV). No man is so foolish and so wicked as he who is willing to reap the proper wages of sin. There are only two ways to satisfy this basic truth: First, all humans must be paid that wage because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Genesis 3:7-21 As His holy justice demanded, He could allow the death of another to substitute for the payment of sin for the sinner who wanted access to Him and met the conditions. Leviticus : (2) as there is no doubt about the duration of life, so there can be none about the duration of death. He could simply let each person die for his sins, He could, like an indulgent grandfather, overlook. 4. 4. Does Scripture Allow for Killing in Self-Defense? He will not have the compassion of the universe in his favor. There is an interesting aspect to this when we consider the word "wages." John 8:2-11 He will have his reward. By so doing they will "put to silence the ignorance of foolish men," secure their own peace, carry out the end of their calling, and give substantial glory to Him that loved them. David C. Grabbe We can begin to see the scope of what God is doing, with Passover opening up a new avenue. Darby Rev., rightly, free gift (compare Romans 5:15). Once a person sins, his debt is absolutely irredeemable by anyone or any action except through death. work (668 pp. 23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Grace reigns in the bestowal of it in every case, and that "in Jesus Christ our Lord," as the righteous Channel of it. (De 30:19). Commentary on Romans Rosscup : This is a much-respected 746-pp. See what over 145,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. N.A.S.B. It is what we are earning. In view of this, who that hath tasted that the Lord is gracious can refrain from saying, "Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Hebrews 2:14-15 It is observable, that although in Scripture the expression, eternal life, is often to be met with, we nowhere find eternal joined with death. Eternal life - The same words which in Romans 6:22 are rendered "everlasting life." 4. Today, it is common to receive wages every two weeks. 3d, The revelation of the righteousness of God in Christ, through the gospel, Romans 3:21. (c) T. Bab. Earlier, the apostle had written in Romans 4:1-5: What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? Midrash Kohelet, fol. Matthew 25:46;” (Macknight;) as also in many other passages. Basic Doctrines: The Fate of the Wicked. But the gift of God - Not the wages of man; not what is due to him; but the mere gift and mercy of God. Amen!" The one will be rich, blessed, everlasting; the other sad, gloomy, lingering, awful, eternal. (2) This is the wages of sin, because, like the pay of the soldier, it is just what was threatened, Ezekiel 18:4, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." John W. Ritenbaugh He will suffer as the culprit pines in the dungeon, or as the murderer dies on the gibbet, because this is the proper reward of sin. "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." 3. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6a). Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Is death: by death here we must understand not only temporal, but also and more especially eternal death, as appears by the opposition it hath to eternal life: this is the just and true hire of sin. Now therefore compare the office of both these services together, and you shall easily see which master is best to serve and obey; the wages that sin will pay you, in the end is death; but the reward that God will freely bestow upon you (if you be his servants) is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Matthew 23:23 Mark : Galatians : It means hence, what a man earns or deserves; what is his proper pay, or what he merits. (4) Christians, in the service of God, should emulate their former selves in the zeal and steadiness with which they served sin, and the length to which they went in it (Ro 6:19). for the end of those things is death. Galatians 4:4 In other words, our liberty, our freedom, is progressive. The Greek word signifies soldiers' wages; see Luke 3:14 and in "At which time Simon rose up, and fought for his nation, and spent much of his own substance, and armed the valiant men of his nation and gave them wages,'' (1 Maccabees 14:32) Sin is represented as a king, a mighty monarch, a tyrannical prince; sinners are his subjects and vassals, his servants and soldiers, who fight under him, and for him, and all the wages they must expect from him is death. (3-4) The illustration of the believer’s death to sin: baptism. The end of sin is death. Death is thus called the wages of sin, not because it is an arbitrary, undeserved appointment, but(1) Because it is its proper desert. 4th, The centre of all faith, embracing that righteousness, Romans 3:22. "Sin pays its serfs by punishing them. Paul states that the effect of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Pastor James W. Fisher Saint Paul Baptist Church Inc. 1309 Larkin Street, Greensboro, NC 27406 www.stpaulbcinc.orh. It is not that we earn it—please do not misunderstand. See Aug. lib. The figure of Romans 6:13 is carried out: Sin, as a Lord to whom they tender weapons and who pays wages. (4) Christians, in the service of God, should emulate their former selves in the zeal and steadiness with which they served sin, and the length to which they went in it (Ro 6:19). See what over 145,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. Biblical Commentary (Bible study) Romans 6:12-23 EXEGESIS: ROMANS 6. Do you believe in the doctrines in Hebrews 6:1-2? The apostle John defines sin as the breaking of the law (I John 3:4). He does not say that the unrepentant sinner will live eternally in some sort of torment but that he will die. Wages; the word properly signifies victuals. The one will be rich, blessed, everlasting; the other sad, gloomy, lingering, awful, eternal. He will not be a martyr in the cause of injured innocence. Version. Hebrews 2:14-15 The Awesome Cost of Salvation. Note, (1) As the most effectual refutation of the oft-repeated calumny, that the doctrine of Salvation by grace encourages to continue in sin, is the holy life of those who profess it, let such ever feel that the highest service they can render to that Grace which is all their hope, is to "yield themselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and their members instruments of righteousness unto God" (Ro 6:12, 13). This leaves God with three alternatives: But this last choice, the one God chose, presented another problem. By so doing they will "put to silence the ignorance of foolish men," secure their own peace, carry out the end of their calling, and give substantial glory to Him that loved them. 6th, The gift of the Holy Ghost, a sense of God’s love, new inward life, Romans 5:5; Romans 6:4. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through—"in"Jesus Christ our Lord—This concluding verse—as pointed as it is brief—contains the marrow, the most fine gold, of the Gospel. (b) Jarchi & Bartenora in ib. Proverbs 14:12 Because if the substitute sinned, his death would pay only for his own sins. Romans 6:23 A wage is payment for work. The gift of God is eternal life. Because the wages of sin is death, how could God extricate man from this dilemma? Greeting 1:1-7. v1 From Paul. God is always giving because it is His nature, His way. Romans 11:19-22 John 8:44 Benson CommentaryRomans 6:23. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Would God make the same determination? Tzeror Hammor, fol. 37. fol. Since a wage is something that we earn and the wages of sin is death, the apostle—and therefore God—is telling us is that we will receive these wages—the penalty of sin—not just at the end of our lives. I find this season helpful in my spiritual journey. He will suffer only what shall be the just due of sin. Vid. (5) it becomes us, therefore, to flee from the wrath to come. Further, as the sin here spoken of is that which men commit personally, and which they continue in, the death which is the wages of this kind of sin must be death eternal. Romans 9:19-24 (5) it becomes us, therefore, to flee from the wrath to come. Change Language {{#items}} {{local_title}} The Christian Fight (Part Four). None so blessed as he who has part in the mercy of God, and who lays hold on eternal life. So the word is interpreted in the Glossary, , "soldiers' wages"; and so it is used by the Jewish writers, being adopted into their language; of a king, they say (a), that he should not multiply to himself gold and silver more than to pay which they (b) interpret by , "the hire of armies", or the wages of soldiers for a whole year, who go in and out with him all the year; so that it denotes wages due, and paid after a campaign is ended, and service is over; and, as here used, suggests, that when men have been all their days in the service of sin, and have fought under the banners of it, the wages they will earn, and the reward that will be given them, will be death: and it is frequently observed by the Jewish doctors (c), that , "there is no death without sin": sin is the cause of death, and death the fruit and effect of sin: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Blog over the years, the revelation of the righteousness of God is always because! 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