Verse of the Day

　　

Romans 6:23

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

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

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

The Message

Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

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

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on Romans 6:21-23

(Read Romans 6:21-23)

　　The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Shame came into the world with sin, and is still the certain effect of it. The end of sin is death. Though the way may seem pleasant and inviting, yet it will be bitterness in the latter end. From this condemnation the believer is set at liberty, when made free from sin. 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! Though the way is up-hill, though it is narrow, thorny, and beset, yet everlasting life at the end of it is sure. The gift of God is eternal life. And this gift is through Jesus Christ our Lord. Christ purchased it, prepared it, prepares us for it, preserves us to it; he is the All in all in our salvation.

　　

Romans 6:23 In-Context

21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

　　22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

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