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Romans 6:23
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KJ21
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
ASV
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
AMP
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God [that is, His remarkable, overwhelming gift of grace to believers] is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
AMPC
For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.
BRG
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
CSB
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
CSBA
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
CEB
The wages that sin pays are death, but God’s gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
CJB
For what one earns from sin is death; but eternal life is what one receives as a free gift from God, in union with the Messiah Yeshua, our Lord.
CEV
Sin pays off with death. But God's gift is eternal life given by Jesus Christ our Lord.
DARBY
For the wages of sin [is] death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
DLNT
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
DRA
For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ERV
When people sin, they earn what sin pays—death. But God gives his people a free gift—eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
EASY
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.
EHV
For the wages of sin is death, but the undeserved gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ESV
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ESVUK
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
EXB
[L For; Because] The ·payment [wages] for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of ·life forever [eternal life] in Christ Jesus our Lord.
GNV
For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
GW
The payment for sin is death, but the gift that God freely gives is everlasting life found in Christ Jesus our Lord.
GNT
For sin pays its wage—death; but God's free gift is eternal life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
HCSB
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ICB
The payment for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.
ISV
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah Jesus our Lord.
PHILLIPS
Sin pays its servants: the wage is death. But God gives to those who serve him: his free gift is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
JUB
For the wages of sin is death, but the grace of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
KJV
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
AKJV
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
LSB
For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
LEB
For the compensation due sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
TLB
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
MSG
But now that you’ve found you don’t have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! 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.
MEV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
MOUNCE
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus · our Lord.
NOG
The payment for sin is death, but the gift that God freely gives is everlasting life found in Christ Yeshua our Lord.
NABRE
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NASB
For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NASB1995
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NCB
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift freely given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NCV
The payment for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NET
For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NIRV
When you sin, the pay you get is death. But God gives you the gift of eternal life. That’s because of what Christ Jesus our Lord has done.
NIV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NIVUK
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NKJV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NLV
You get what is coming to you when you sin. It is death! But God’s free gift is life that lasts forever. It is given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ.
NLT
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
NMB
For the reward of sin is death, but eternal life is the gift of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
NRSVA
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NRSVACE
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NRSVCE
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NRSVUE
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NTFE
The wages paid by sin, you see, are death; but God’s free gift is the life of the age to come, in the Messiah, Jesus our Lord.
OJB
For the loin (wages) that [slave master] Chet (Sin) pays out of its own payroll is mavet (death); however, the gracious matnat hachesed Hashem (the gift of the grace of G-d) is Chayyei Olam baMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.
RGT
For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
RSV
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
RSVCE
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
TLV
For sin’s payment is death, but God’s gracious gift is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
VOICE
The payoff for a life of sin is death, but God is offering us a free gift—eternal life through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, the Liberating King.
WEB
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
WE
The reward that wrong ways give is to die. But the gift which God gives is to live for ever. Christ Jesus our Lord has done this for us.
WYC
For the wages of sin is death; the grace of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
YLT
for the wages of the sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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