For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23).
23 If you serve sin as your master, it will pay you with death. But if you belong to our Lord Jesus Christ, God gives you a gift! That gift is life with God for ever.
“Romans 6:23 says that this is a gift – 'The wages of sin is death, but the GIFT of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. '” “A gift is something that is free. You can't do anything to earn it, and you don't have to take it if you don't want to.”
Prayer: Father in heaven, I acknowledge that the wages of sin in my life bring about death in many different forms. But I thank you that in Jesus Christ, I have eternal life here and now. Help me to embrace the free gift in Jesus, not separating it from His presence, and to dwell deeply with Him all day long.
Rom. 6. [23] For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
By birth we are slaves of sin; by grace and faith we have become slaves of God. The slavery of sin yields no return, except a steady, moral deterioration, and finally death. The slavery of God yields the precious return of sanctification and finally eternal life.
Romans 3:23–25 Reminds Us of God's Grace
God put him forward as a propitiation by his blood. That word propitiation basically means one who would bear the judgment we deserve, the wrath we deserve in our sin. Jesus has been put forward by God the Father.
Romans 6:20-23 In-Context
Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
God has pronounced that the penalty of sin is spiritual death and separation from God in a place of judgment called hell: “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Jesus clearly taught that sinners were condemned in sin and would perish and go to hell if they didn't believe in Him as their Savior (John 3:16-18).
We do not have to sin anymore. This is the message of “baptism” that Paul proclaims in Romans 6: that through baptism we are united to Christ. And if we are united to Christ, then what is true of him is true of us. Dead to sin, we no longer have any excuse to sin.
As you trust in the Lord, know without the shadow of a doubt that as surely as Jesus has borne your sins, He has also borne your sicknesses (Isaiah 53:5, Young's Literal Translation).
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. 23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Clothed in Christ Now
Sometimes the command is to “put on” certain godly characteristics that are a reflection of Christ himself: “Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience” (Col 3:12).
In verse 22, Paul says, But now having been freed from sin. “But now,” is in the present tense, the Roman Believers are free from sin, and enslaved to God—again, Paul is illustrating the power every Christian has to choose. Freed from sin, becoming slaves to God.
Casting your anxiety on God means trusting him for handling this specific situation. If you believe that he cares (which is what the promise says), and believe that he is God, then your fears will be lifted. The Connection with Prayer.
It means to lay our "ego strength" aside. Taking up our cross means, instead, picking up those weaknesses that we so often try to run away from in life. Taking up our cross means carrying around those places where we are vulnerable, places where we are maybe even exposed to embarrassment and shame.
Paul's Letter to the Romans is a powerful exposition of the doctrine of the supremacy of Christ and of faith in Christ as the source of salvation. It is an implicit plea to the Christians at Rome, and to all Christians, to hold fast to that faith.
Romans 1:23 in Other Translations
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
The moment we are saved, the payment for our sins has been paid already. Indeed that the wages of our sins is death but since Christ has died for us already and He has saved us already, we are already saved and finally we can have eternal life through Him.
22But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. 22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
We should obey righteousness instead of our sinful desires, in part, because we now understand the consequences of sin. Instead of shame and death, we should serve God who gives eternal life as a gift.