For sin pays it wage - death. The slave of sin earns his own death. But God's free gift. Man has no ability to earn eternal life. What he cannot do for himself, God offers as a free gift through Jesus Christ. All have the right to come, and to accept the water of life as a gift (Revelation 22:17).
Verse Romans 6:23. _FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH_] The second death, everlasting _perdition_. Every sinner _earns_ this by long, sore, and painful service. O! what pains do men take to get to hell! E...
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...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Dead with Christ to Sin. (Romans 6:1 .)_ 2. Risen with Christ and Alive to God. (Romans 6:8 .) 3. Sin shall Not Have Dominion. (Romans 6:12 .) 4. Servants to Righteousness. ...
THE CHRISTIAN'S SEVERANCE FROM SIN. Romans 6:12 f. The conflict turns on the possession of _the body:_ sin and God both claim the use of your limbs; sin must not reign in your mortal body, though that...
DYING TO LIVE (Romans 6:1-11)...
What then? Are we to go on sinning because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid! Are you not aware that if you yield yourselves to anyone as slaves, in order to obey them, you are the...
WAGES. rations. Greek. _opsonion._ Only here, Luke 3:14. 1Co 9:7. 2 Corinthians 11:8. In Luke 3:14 the "wages" are the fish ration issued to Roman soldiers. Compare...
_For_ The "for" refers to the last statement. The verse may be paraphrased, "For whereas the wages of sin is death, the gift of God _is_, as we have now said, _eternal life_." _wages_ The Gr. is same...
Romans 6:1 to Romans 7:6. The ethical bearing and standard of the new life in Christ. (1) Are we to conclude that the state of sin is to continue, as a provocative, so to speak, of the graciousness of...
15–23. These verses, starting from the contrast just stated, describe the same conditions as in Romans 6:1-14 but from a slightly different point of view; there the two states of man have been describ...
16–23. These verses answer the question put in Romans 6:15. The complexity of the passage is due to the fact that S. Paul wishes to explain that the Christian life is subject to law, but that the subj...
ΤῸ ΧΆΡΙΣΜΑ. The concrete instance of GOD’s χάρις. ἘΝ ΧΡ. With ζ. αἰ. as Romans 6:11 : for the full name cf. n. on Romans 5:21. N. refrain again....
ΌΨΏΝΙΟΝ (G3800) провизия, заработок солдата (С. С. Caragounis, " ΟΨΏΝΙΟΝ: A Reconsideration of its Meaning" NovT 16 [1974]: 35-37; TDNT). Описание заработка солдата _см._ в Lightfoot, Notes; СС, 206-2...
DISCOURSE: 1850 MAN’S DESERT, AND GOD’S MERCY Romans 6:23. _The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord_. THE distribution of rewards and punishments...
FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH— The _wages of sin_ does not here signify the wages which are paid for sinning, but the wages which sin pays. This is evident not only from the opposition which is here p...
_TEXT_ Romans 6:15-23. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his s...
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. FOR THE WAGES, [ opsoonia (G3800)]. The word signifies military supplies, 'pay' in kind rather tha...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us into disfavor because of the super...
GIFT] RV 'free gift.' THROUGH] RV 'in': cp. Romans 6:11; 1 John 5:11. St. Paul has finished his exposition of Justification (Romans 3:19 to Romans 5:
THE NEW RIGHTEOUSNESS IN UNION WITH CHRIST St. Paul's begins by repeating an objection he must often have heard from Jewish adversaries (cp: Romans 3:8), and suggested here by Romans 5:20 -'Does not t...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 6 FREEDOM FROM *SIN 6:1-23 DEAD TO *SIN, ALIVE IN *CHRIST 6:1-14 V1 God’s *grace increased because *sin increased. Bu...
THE GIFT OF GOD. — The natural antithesis would be “wages;” but this would here be inappropriate, and therefore the Apostle substitutes “the free gift.” In spite of your sanctification as Christians,...
(15-23) _Free_ forgiveness! What does that mean? Freedom to sin? Far from it. That were to return into the old slavery. To yield to sin is to be the servant or slave of sin with its consequence — deat...
CHAPTER 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought u...
The γὰρ introduces the general truth of which what has been said of the Romans in Romans 6:21 f. is an illustration. “All this is normal and natural, for the wages of sin is death,” etc. ὀψώνια 1Ma 3:...
“SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION” Romans 6:12 Standing with Christ on the resurrection side of death, we must present our whole being to God for His use. We have left forever behind, nailed to the Cross,...
The apostle declared, "We died to sin," that is, we were set free from our relationship to sin. On that basis he asked his question, How can we live in that to which we have died? Taking baptism as an...
(11) For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (11) Death is the punishment due to sin, but we are sanctified freely, to everlasting life....
For the wages, which the tyrant sin gives to his soldiers and slaves, is eternal death; but the wages, the pay, the reward, which God gives to those that fight under him, is everlasting life; which, t...
“ _For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord._ ” On the one side, _wages_, something earned. The word ὀψώνιον strictly denotes _payment in kind_, then...
FOURTEENTH PASSAGE (6:15-23). THE POWER OF THE NEW PRINCIPLE OF SANCTIFICATION TO DELIVER FROM SIN. The new principle had just been laid down. The apostle had found it in the object of justifying fait...
REFLECTIONS Reader! let us both learn from this most blessed Chapter, how to answer the character, of every description, who ventures, from the pride or corruption of his heart, to charge the doctrine...
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. (19) I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to unc...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_THE WAGES OF SIN_ ‘The wages of sin is death.’ Romans 6:23 The judgment of God once rested, says the Apostle, upon all the world, and that judgment was expressed in death. It is quite clear that t...
_A CONTRAST_ ‘The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ Romans 6:23 I. THE MASTER.—In the one case the master sin is a tyrant; in the other a h...
_GOD’S GIFT_ ‘The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ Romans 6:23 If death—death both temporal and eternal—is the wages of sin, what, we may ask, is the wages of righteousne...
23._For the wages of sin_, _etc. _There are those who think that, Paul, by comparing death to allowances of meat, (_obsoniis _,) points out in a disparaging manner the kind of wretched reward that is...
The character of this new life, into which the resurrection of Christ has brought us, is presented here in a striking way. Christ had perfectly glorified God in dying; also even in dying was He the So...
FOR 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...
For the wages of sin _is_ death; but the gift of God _is_ eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Ver. 23. _For the wages of sin_] The best largesse or congiary (οψωνιον) that sin gives to his so...
_For the wages of sin is death_ “The word οψωνια, rendered _wages_, properly signifies the food and pay which generals give to their soldiers for their service. By using this term, the apostle shows w...
THE WAGES OF SIN; its just desert. IS DEATH; endless sinning and suffering. ETERNAL LIFE; perfect, endless holiness and bliss. The future misery of the wicked is their just desert; and the future ha...
Servants of righteousness unto everlasting life:...
FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. Paul had used a very strong expression: "slavery of righteousness," to illustrate his meaning, a comp...
A CHANGE OF MASTERS With the headship of Christ established for the believer - a headship which has to do with new life in contrast to the old life inherited from Adam, and grace reigning where sin ha...
ROMANS CHAPTER 6 1. Subject of this chapter a. NOT: baptism - mentioned 3 times b. IS: death - spiritual death c. Some form of the word "dead" is found 18 times d. Verses - 2, 3, 4 (2 times), 5,...
__ Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 'Wages of sin' -Sin pays its wages in full with no cut. (Robertson p. 365); 'Sin pays...
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 c...
q.d. 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 re...
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. [If consistency demands that you serve God with your whole heart, so profit and advantage also urges y...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III But, being ignorant of Him who from the Virgin is Emmanuel, they are deprived of His gift, which is eternal life;[358]...
Romans 6:23 For G1063 wages G3800 sin G266 death G2288 but G1161 gift G5486 God G2316 eternal G166 life...
‘ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.' For the only wages that sin paid was death, and what lay beyond. That was the consequence of servin...
WE ARE THEREFORE NO LONGER TO BE SERVANTS OF SIN, BUT SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OF GOD, NO LONGER EARNING DEATH AS OUR WAGES, BUT RECEIVING THE FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD ...
CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN FREED FROM THE TYRANNY OF SIN BY DYING WITH CHRIST AND RISING WITH HIM AND ARE THEREFORE TO TRIUMPHANTLY SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY OF BEING SO FREED FROM SIN (6:1-23). Having ended th...
3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
Romans 6:23. FOR. The reason for the results stated in Romans 6:21-22, contrasting the ends of the two courses and the inherent difference. THE WAGES OF SIN, that is paid by sin. Possibly a continua...
2. _Christians are Dead to Sin_, _and Dedicated to God._ The exhortation of Romans 6:11 is expanded in Romans 6:12-14; the negative part (‘dead unto sin') in Romans 6:12-13 a; the positive part (‘aliv...
WAGES (οψωνια). Late Greek for wages of soldier, here of sin. See on Luke 3:14; 1 Corinthians 9:7; 2 Corinthians 11:8. Sin pays its wages in full with no cut. But eternal life is God's gift (χαρισμα...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Romans 6:23 The Choice of Life. 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 t...
Romans 6:15 Bondmen of Righteousness. I. St. Paul's manner of thinking is frequently hard to follow. One peculiarity which contributes to make it a difficult exercise to track his reasoning is this:...
Romans 6:1 _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ The fifth chapter ends up in this way, that «where sin abounded, etc… Jesus Christ our Lord.» Then he goes on t...
CONTENTS: Deliverance from the power of indwelling sin by counting the old life dead, and yielding to the new life. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: It is an abuse of the grace of God in Ch...
Romans 6:1. _Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ The apostle having said, that as sin had abounded by the entrance of the law, so grace had much more abounded by the proclamation of the...
_For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life._ THE WAGES OF SIN AND THE GIFT OF GOD I. The wages of sin is death. “Wages” here means “the rations” supplied as pay to a soldier....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:23 WAGES implies that the punishment for sin is what one has earned and deserves. FREE GIFT is the opposite of something one deserves. This fits Paul’s earlier emphasis on just...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:1 The law does not and cannot conquer sin, but the grace given to followers of Christ triumphs over sin and death. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 6:23.—Eternal life is not like wages due for service to God, as death is wages due for service to sin. Eternal life is a donative or free gift of God. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (7) _Moral results to true believers of the revelation to them of the righteousness of God. _The _righteousness of God_ having been announced as revealed in the gospel (Romans 1...
What shall we say then? (Romans 6:1) If where sin abounds, grace does much more abound, Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (Romans 6:1) No. Let's let God reveal how much grace there i...
1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 5:11;...
Wages [ο ψ ω ν ι α]. From oyon cooked meat, and later, generally, provisions. At Athens especially fish. Hence ojywnion is primarily provision - money, and is used of supplies for an army, see 1 Corin...
SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN? Romans 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Grace never gives a margin to sin. There are some who go so far as to use "salvation by Grace" as an excuse for laxity in their morals; they...
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. The...
The apostle having all along throughout this chapter exhorted us to die daily unto sin, and to live unto God, concludes with. motive drawn from the different rewards and punishments in another world;...