That would make Romans 6:23 a lie, and it’s not a lie, it’s the truth. He does not explain away the free grace of the gospel, but he shows that connexion between justification and holiness are inseparable. “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. Hebrews 2:14-15 God looks at these things in an interesting way. Without law, there would have been no sin, and thus no death. Christ purchased it, prepared it, prepares us for it, preserves us to it; he is the All in all in our salvation.Barnes' Notes on the BibleFor 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. Colossians 2:13-14 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. The Romans of old paid their soldiers with provision and victuals in recompence of their service; afterward they gave them money, but still the old term was retained, and now it is used to signify any reward or stipend whatsoever. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. It is a wonderful concept. 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? We may remark, therefore. 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. 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. 1 John 5:16-17 Galatians 4:4 2d, The knowledge of sin by the law, a sense of God’s wrath, inward death, Romans 3:20. The end of sin is death. 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. 4. For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. God will not inflict anything more than was threatened, and therefore it is just.Is death - This stands opposed here to eternal life, and proves that one is just as enduring as the other.But the gift of God - Not the wages of man; not what is due to him; but the mere gift and mercy of God. Instead, we should live as if righteousness was our master, which, in a sense, it is. Sermon Bible Commentary. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in[ a] Christ Jesus our Lord. Bible Language English. We therefore must consider ourselves "dead to sin, but Our sin separates us from God, the creator and sustainer of life. 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). Benson CommentaryRomans 6:23. But "eternal life" is in no sense or degree the wages of our righteousness; we do nothing whatever to earn or become entitled to it, and never can: it is therefore, in the most absolute sense, "THE GIFT OF God." 6:21-23 The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. "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). Malachi : Salvation is not something that we receive at the end of our life. His death substitutes for our well-deserved death, which we earned through sin. Since the Spirit is God's gift, neither are we born with it, nor can we earn it. He does not say that the unrepentant sinner will live eternally in some sort of torment but that he will die. 44. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 3. 1. Proverbs 13:6 1-11), Paul established that, in our baptism, we became new creatures—died with Christ and were resurrected to new life with him. The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. (5) it becomes us, therefore, to flee from the wrath to come. But "eternal life" is in no sense or degree the wages of our righteousness; we do nothing whatever to earn or become entitled to it, and never can: it is therefore, in the most absolute sense, "THE GIFT OF God." He will not have the compassion of the universe in his favor. (3) if the sinner is lost, he will deserve to die. No man can conceive a more dreadful doom than for himself to be treated forever just as he deserves to be. What does this mean? Romans 3:25 Vajikra Rabba, parash. Luke 16:19-31 Midrash Kohelet, fol. (2) as there is no doubt about the duration of life, so there can be none about the duration of death. If God is speaking to you about any area of your life, obey him now. (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." See Aug. lib. I find this season helpful in my spiritual journey. Matthew 13:45-46 They are so simple and so basic that you must believe in them. Zohar in Gen. fol. Revelation 20:10 Romans 6:23. The revelation of the righteousness of God in Christ through the gospel Romans 3:21 4. Though hampered by lack of any outline to relate things, the work has much gold if one has time … Biblical Commentary (Bible study) Romans 6:12-23 EXEGESIS: ROMANS 6. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independ … John 8:44 Hence ὀψώνιον is primarily provision-money, and is used of supplies for an army, see 1 Corinthians 9:7. AN OVERVIEW In the first half of this chapter (vv. Galatians 4:7 (a) Misn. 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. One sinner accounts his life to be of more worth than the life of another sinner. Ephesians 2:1 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. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. through Romans 16:27, then several appendices on subjects relating to Romans. See what over 145,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. Once this substitute gave his life, it would apply to all mankind for all time! 37. fol. Basic Doctrines: Salvation. Though the way is up-hill, though it is narrow, thorny, and beset, yet everlasting life at the end of it is sure. Death is thus called the wages of sin, not because it is an arbitrary, undeserved appointment, but(1) Because it is its proper desert. Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. 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. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Luke 4:33-34 It may be observed, that there is a just proportion between sin, and the wages of it, yet there is none between eternal life, and the obedience of men; and therefore though the apostle had been pressing so much obedience to God, and to righteousness, he does not make eternal life to be the fruit and effect of obedience, but of the gift of the grace of God. Matthew 25:46;” (Macknight;) as also in many other passages. 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." He is setting this before us in a figure; and it … Wages; the word properly signifies victuals. Earl L. Henn (1934-1997) Romans : 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. Death, then, is what we "earn" as a result of committing sin. The one will be rich, blessed, everlasting; the other sad, gloomy, lingering, awful, eternal. Find Romans 6:23 Sermon Illustrations, browse preaching ideas and sermon stories on Romans 6:23 None so blessed as he who has part in the mercy of God, and who lays hold on eternal life. God is always giving because it is His nature, His way. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary23. Justification, whereby God forgives all past sin, and freely accepts the sinner Romans 3:24 6. He could simply let each person die for his sins, He could, like an indulgent grandfather, overlook. But the gift of God - Not the wages of man; not what is due to him; but the mere gift and mercy of God. This is not eternal life in hell fire but death, the complete annihilation of one's life. Leviticus : In other words, our liberty, our freedom, is progressive. (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). He will have no one to take his part against God. (Re 1:5, 6). (3) As this most momentous of all transitions in the history of a man is wholly of God's free grace, the change should never be thought, spoken, or written of but with lively thanksgiving to Him who so loved us (Ro 6:17). He will not be a martyr in the cause of injured innocence. Grace is a gift of God, and it is not something that happens only once but constantly. 55. It means hence, what a man earns or deserves; what is his proper pay, or what he merits. Crossway Books). 176. Hebrews 2:14-15 (Read Romans 6:1,2) The apostle is very full in pressing the necessity of holiness. (2) as there is no doubt about the duration of life, so there can be none about the duration of death. These are the only acceptable payments. Sabbat, fol. The penalty of sin is meted out on a regular, just as wages are. … Matthew 17:19-21 This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. I have posted several articles about Ash Wednesday and Lent on this blog over the years. The phrase is opposed to death; and proves incontestably that that means eternal death. 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 : 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. In contrast with death, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:16 (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). Whenever we begin on the process of salvation, of true freedom, we begin to receive salvation on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. Romans … Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 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. James 1:15 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. 55. 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. 23 For the wages of sin is death, It is crucial to see that the … 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. [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. The gift of God is eternal life; he doth not say that eternal life is the wages of righteousness, but that it is the gracious or free gift of God. From this condemnation the believer is set at liberty, when made free from sin. Grace reigns in the bestowal of it in every case, and that "in Jesus Christ our Lord," as the righteous Channel of it. Genesis 2:7 Zohar in Gen. fol. Romans 13:1-5 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). Exodus 20:8-11 The apostle uses this term because in his day they did things in much the same way as we do. Is death - This stands opposed here to eternal life, and proves that one is just as enduring as the other. 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." Romans : Romans 9:19-24 Barnes's Romans 6:23 Bible Commentary 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. The gift of the Holy Ghost; a sense of Romans 5:5, God's love new inward life Romans 6:4 7. Not a sinner will die who ought not to die. (1) That the one will be as long as the other. 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. Galatians : 37. fol. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 Christ says, "I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly." As the laborer is worthy of his hire, and feels it to be his due—his own of right—so is death the due of sin, the wages the sinner has well wrought for, his own. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. The one will be rich, blessed, everlasting; the other sad, gloomy, lingering, awful, eternal. But. This reading is a continuation of Romans 6:1-11, where we discussed theological themes of sin and death in relation to Paul’s teachings on the sacrament of baptism and eschatology.1 Verses 12-23 orient readers toward living a new life because justification is probably the beginning of what we may call Christian life, which is followed by … Continue reading "Commentary on Romans 6:12-23" (3) As this most momentous of all transitions in the history of a man is wholly of God's free grace, the change should never be thought, spoken, or written of but with lively thanksgiving to Him who so loved us (Ro 6:17). (b) Jarchi & Bartenora in ib. Matthew 23:23 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. Galatians 2:10 Like the penalties of sin, freedom or salvation does not come all at once. The centre of all, faith, embracing that righteousness Romans 3:22 5. 4. Change Language {{#items}} {{local_title}} Shame came into the world with sin, and is still the certain effect of it. “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (from the liturgy for Ash Wednesday, from the Book of Common Prayer).. 44. And as the one is the conscious sense of the hopeless loss of all blissful existence, so the other is the conscious possession and enjoyment of all that constitutes a rational creature's highest "life" for evermore (Ro 6:23). Salvation is much bigger in scope, involving far more than just the end of the process. Genesis 3:7-21 1. Let the thought be abhorred, of continuing in sin that grace may abound. Ecclesiastes 3:16-17 4th, The centre of all faith, embracing that righteousness, Romans 3:22. 7th, The free service of righteousness, Romans 6:23. Verses 1-11 could be understood as pointing to full possession of all that God gives. Hebrews : (De 30:19). We find both aspects applied to practical Christian life in Romans. The substitute had to be a sinless human being, since God cannot die and only a man who lived a sinless life would qualify. (1) Because it is its proper desert. We need to expand our thinking in regard to Passover because the solution to God's "predicament" regarding human sin begins immediately upon our acceptance of the blood of Jesus Christ. Not a pain will be inflicted on the sinner which he does not deserve. At Athens especially fish. 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. 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. It is something given. This should give us a better understanding of this verse. NASB E-Prime Grace reigns in the bestowal of it in every case, and that "in Jesus Christ our Lord," as the righteous Channel of it. Either each individual pays for himself, or Christ pays in his place. Young's Tzeror Hammor, fol. "Sin pays its serfs by punishing them. 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. Revelation 2:14-15 Romans 6:23 reads, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." 2 Corinthians 3:7 No man can conceive a more dreadful doom than for himself to be treated forever just as he deserves to be. He varies the phrase on purpose, to show that we attain not eternal life by our own merits, our own works or worthiness, but by the gift or grace of God; for which cause he also addeth, through Jesus Christ our Lord. "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." (Hughes, R. K. Romans: Righteousness from heaven.Preaching the Word. He will have his reward. Actually, it is something that begins whenever we accept the blood of Jesus Christ. for the end of those things is death. 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." 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. 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