Romans 6:22-23 Part 2 of 2

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

 

For the wages of sin is death 

Genesis 2:17  "... but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."

Proverbs 10:16  The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the wicked are sin and death. 

Ezekiel 18:4  "For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child--both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die."

Romans 1:32  Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Romans 5:12  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned--

Romans 7:5  For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

Romans 8:6  The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:13  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

Galatians 6:7-8  Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please the flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

James 1:15  Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord 

Matthew 25:46  "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

1 John 5:13  I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

 

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