If a man pays this wage for his own sins, he dies and the chance to gain access to God and eternal life is lost. (Schleusner); and thence, it means the pay of the Roman soldier, because formerly it was the custom to pay the soldier in these things. Romans 6:23 Once this substitute gave his life, it would apply to all mankind for all time! Romans 13:1-5 But the gift of God - Not the wages of man; not what is due to him; but the mere gift and mercy of God. 55. A.S.V. through Romans 16:27, then several appendices on subjects relating to Romans. The revelation of the righteousness of God in Christ through the gospel Romans 3:21 4. 2 Corinthians 3:7 See what over 145,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. 4. 4. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. Salvation is much bigger in scope, involving far more than just the end of the process. God will not inflict anything more than was threatened, and therefore it is just. 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. 70. One does not work for a person for a lifetime and then receive his wages, but rather he works a specified period of time—a week, two weeks, a month—and receives his wages on a regular basis. He will have no one to take his part against God. It means hence, what a man earns or deserves; what is his proper pay, or what he merits. (2) as there is no doubt about the duration of life, so there can be none about the duration of death. 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. Romans : 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. âFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lordâ (Romans 6:23, ESV). Let the papists (if they can) reconcile this text to their distinction of mortal and venial sins, and to their doctrine of the meritoriousness of good works. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 The Choice of Life. 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. 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. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ye that read or hear these words, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live!" For more on the figure of speech personification, see commentary on Prov. is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. We find both aspects applied to practical Christian life in Romans. Basic Doctrines: Salvation. These words, at first sight, look as if the sense of them was, that eternal life is the gift of God through Christ, which is a great and glorious truth of the Gospel; but their standing in opposition to the preceding words require another sense, namely, that God's gift of grace issues in eternal life, through Christ: wherefore by "the gift of God" is not meant eternal life, but either the gift of a justifying righteousness, or the grace of God in regeneration and sanctification, or both, which issue in eternal life; the one is the saints' right and title, the other their meetness for it: so that as death is the wages of sin, and is what that issues in, and brings unto, eternal life is the effect of grace, or what the grace of God in justifying and sanctifying his people issues in; even a life free from all sorrow and imperfection; a life of the utmost perfection and pleasure, and which will last for ever: and as the grace of God, which justifies and sanctifies them, is "through Christ", so is the eternal life itself which it brings unto: this is in Christ, comes through his righteousness, sufferings, and death; is bestowed by him, and will greatly consist in the enjoyment of him. 7th, The free service of righteousness, Romans 6:23. It is observable, that although in Scripture the expression, eternal life, is often to be met with, we nowhere find eternal joined with death. Hebrews 2:14-15 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. work (668 pp. Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 Matthew 13:45-46 Romans 10:1-3 John 8:44 We have been freed from sin. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) âfoughtâ for the freedom of enslaved and oppressed peoples for over thirty years and is rightly recognized as one of the worldâs great leaders in this regard. Ye that read or hear these words, "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live!" But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. The phrase is opposed to death; and proves incontestably that that means eternal death. And this gift is through Jesus Christ our Lord. He does not explain away the free grace of the gospel, but he shows that connexion between justification and holiness are inseparable. Matthew 13:45-46 The apostle John defines sin as the breaking of the law (I John 3:4). Bible Language English. (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). Romans 6:23 A wage is payment for work. This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. Romans 6:6-23 New International Version (NIV) 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,[ a] that we should no longer be slaves to sinâ 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. 44. He will have no one to take his part against God. We can begin to see the scope of what God is doing, with Passover opening up a new avenue. 1 John 3:4 The centre of all, faith, embracing that righteousness Romans 3:22 5. 2d, The knowledge of sin by the law, a sense of God’s wrath, inward death, Romans 3:20. The penalty of sin is meted out on a regular, just as wages are. 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. Cohen de Lara, Ir. Romans 2:13 Basic Doctrines: The Fate of the Wicked. Midrash Kohelet, fol. Mark : I consider myself to be a slave of *Christ Jesus. Either each individual pays for himself, or Christ pays in his place. (11) Death is the punishment due to sin, but we are sanctified freely, to everlasting life. Because if the substitute sinned, his death would pay only for his own sins. Today, it is common to receive wages every two weeks. 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). 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. 70. Commentary on Romans Rosscup : This is a much-respected 746-pp. 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. Because His law was in effect, God has ascribed sin to man from the beginning. (Read Romans 6:1,2) The apostle is very full in pressing the necessity of holiness. Jesus Christ our Lord—This concluding verse—as pointed as it is brief—contains the marrow, the most fine gold, of the Gospel. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (4) Christians, in the service of God, should emulate their former selves in the zeal and steadiness with which they served sin, and the length to which they went in it (Ro 6:19). He will not be a martyr in the cause of injured innocence. The one will be rich, blessed, everlasting; the other sad, gloomy, lingering, awful, eternal. God offers eternal life to those who are willing to meet His conditions. Answer: Romans 6:23 says, âFor the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.â At its core, sin is rebellion against God. At Athens especially fish. A.F.V Breaking Down the Key Parts of Romans 6:23 #1 âFor the wages of sin is death,â Sadly, our death is earned not only by our father Adamâs rebellion but by our own. (5) To stimulate this holy rivalry, let us often "look back to the rock whence we were hewn, the hole of the pit whence we were digged," in search of the enduring advantages and permanent satisfactions which the service of Sin yielded; and when we find to our "shame" only gall and wormwood, let us follow a godless life to its proper "end," until, finding ourselves in the territories of "death," we are fain to hasten back to survey the service of Righteousness, that new Master of all believers, and find Him leading us sweetly into abiding "holiness," and landing us at length in "everlasting life" (Ro 6:20-22). 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. The Bereans "received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts 17:10-11). You are going to be called to stand upon them in the midst of battle. (c) T. Bab. From ὄψον cooked meat, and later, generally, provisions. Zohar in Gen. fol. (De 30:19). 4. 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. Luke 4:33-34 But. NASB E-Prime [Show the verse and read it aloud.] It is so huge and serious that an already sin-defiled person cannot pay it off. Not a pain will be inflicted on the sinner which he does not deserve. Romans 9:19-24 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. Colossians 2:13-14 These are the only acceptable payments. 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.Eternal life - The same words which in Romans 6:22 are rendered "everlasting life." Without law, there would have been no sin, and thus no death. (3-4) The illustration of the believerâs death to sin: baptism. The Christian Fight (Part Four). The inescapable conclusion is that God's law, His definition of right and wrong, has been in effect since the very beginning! Genesis 3:1-4 Exodus 20:8-11 Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. 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. Matthew 23:23 Compare all. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary6:21-23 The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. for the end of those things is death. Not a sinner will die who ought not to die. He does not say that the unrepentant sinner will live eternally in some sort of torment but that he will die. 44. Genesis 6:7-9 Malachi : (1) That the one will be as long as the other. Paul writes in Romans 5:8, "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." He will have his reward. Whenever we begin on the process of salvation, of true freedom, we begin to receive salvation on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. Crossway Books). It is a wonderful concept. 1. 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. 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 reward that God will freely bestow upon you (if you be his servants) is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John W. Ritenbaugh Galatians 4:4 Grace is a gift of God, and it is not something that happens only once but constantly. He could simply let each person die for his sins, He could, like an indulgent grandfather, overlook. The phrase is opposed to death; and proves incontestably that that means eternal death. 1 John 5:16-17 I.S.V. (5) it becomes us, therefore, to flee from the wrath to come. (4) they who are saved will be raised to heaven, not because they merit it, but by the rich and sovereign grace of God. Further, as the sin here spoken of is that which men commit personally, and which they continue in, the death which is the wages of this kind of sin must be death eternal. 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. 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. How would He continue His purpose? What does this mean? Ecclesiastes 7:1-4 Earl L. Henn (1934-1997) Proverbs 14:12 (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." Barnes's Romans 6:23 Bible Commentary For the wages of sin - The word translated here "wages" οÌÏÏÌνια opsoÌnia properly denotes what is purchased to be eaten with bread, as fish, flesh, vegetables, etc. Genesis 3:4 The gift of God is eternal life. He will suffer only what shall be the just due of sin. Vajikra Rabba, parash. I have posted several articles about Ash Wednesday and Lent on this blog over the years. 3d, The revelation of the righteousness of God in Christ, through the gospel, Romans 3:21. Midrash Kohelet, fol. "Sin pays its serfs by punishing them. Leviticus : Let the thought be abhorred, of continuing in sin that grace may abound. (Schleusner); and thence, it means the pay of the Roman soldier, because formerly it was the custom to pay the soldier in these things. In other words, we will be affected by the penalties of sin all the time. 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." 37. fol. Its wages is death, and the death for which its counters are available is the destruction of the weal of the soul" (Morison). Romans 7:4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. Amen!" 176. (b) Jarchi & Bartenora in ib. 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. Sabbat, fol. 4. These words, at first sight, look as if the sense of them was, that eternal life is the gift of God through Christ, which is a great and glorious truth of the Gospel; but their standing in opposition to the preceding words require another sense, namely, that God's gift of grace issues in eternal life, through Christ: wherefore by "the gift of God" is not meant eternal life, but either the gift of a justifying righteousness, or the grace of God in regeneration and sanctification, or both, which issue in eternal life; the one is the saints' right and title, the other their meetness for it: so that as death is the wages of sin, and is what that issues in, and brings unto, eternal life is the effect of grace, or what the grace of God in justifying and sanctifying his people issues in; even a life free from all sorrow and imperfection; a life of the utmost perfection and pleasure, and which will last for ever: and as the grace of God, which justifies and sanctifies them, is "through Christ", so is the eternal life itself which it brings unto: this is in Christ, comes through his righteousness, sufferings, and death; is bestowed by him, and will greatly consist in the enjoyment of him. As applied to sin, it means that death is what sin deserves; what will be its proper reward. Proverbs 13:6 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. That would make Romans 6:23 a lie, and itâs not a lie, itâs the truth. 1. This is not eternal life in hell fire but death, the complete annihilation of one's life. Salvation is not something that we receive at the end of our life. (NASB: Lockman)Greek: ta gar opsonia tes hamartias thanatos to de charisma tou theou z oe aionios en Christo Iesou to kurio hemon. Like the penalties of sin, freedom or salvation does not come all at once. He will not have the compassion of the universe in his favor. (Re 1:5, 6).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). 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." This should give us a better understanding of this verse. In contrast with death, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. (2) as there is no doubt about the duration of life, so there can be none about the duration of death. 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. Hebrews 2:14-15 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). Eternal life - The same words which in Romans 6:22 are rendered "everlasting life." In other words, our liberty, our freedom, is progressive. (De 30:19). Shame came into the world with sin, and is still the certain effect of it. 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. 3. Tzeror Hammor, fol. God looks at these things in an interesting way. All their salvation will be ascribed to him; and they will celebrate his mercy and grace forever. Leviticus 26:25 1.Geneva Study Bible{11} For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Exodus 21:15-17 This reading is a continuation of Romans 6:1-11, where we discussed theological themes of sin and death in relation to Paulâs 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" (c) T. Bab. God could see—in His wisdom He knew—that man would sin. He also shows that both sin and death have been a factor in human existence since the start (Romans 5:12-14). John W. Ritenbaugh Romans 7:9 Matthew 17:19-21 He protested racial legislation in South Africa and led civil disobedience campaigns in his native India in order to secure home rule. I find this season helpful in my spiritual journey. Leviticus : This is not eternal life in hell fire but death, the complete annihilation of one's life. The chapter concludes with a triumphant summation shrouded by a solemn warning (Romans 6:23). Not a pain will be inflicted on the sinner which he does not deserve. Biblical Commentary (Bible study) Romans 6:12-23 EXEGESIS: ROMANS 6. (Hughes, R. K. Romans: Righteousness from heaven.Preaching the Word. 6th, The gift of the Holy Ghost, a sense of God’s love, new inward life, Romans 5:5; Romans 6:4. The substitute had to be a sinless human being, since God cannot die and only a man who lived a sinless life would qualify. This leaves God with three alternatives: But this last choice, the one God chose, presented another problem. "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). 37. fol. None so blessed as he who has part in the mercy of God, and who lays hold on eternal life. No man can conceive a more dreadful doom than for himself to be treated forever just as he deserves to be. If the fruit is unto holiness, if there is an active principle of true and growing grace, the end will be everlasting life; a very happy end! The apostle uses this term because in his day they did things in much the same way as we do. Pastor James W. Fisher Saint Paul Baptist Church Inc. 1309 Larkin Street, Greensboro, NC 27406 www.stpaulbcinc.orh. Romans 11:19-22 There is an interesting aspect to this when we consider the word "wages." 4th, The centre of all faith, embracing that righteousness, Romans 3:22. Luke 16:19-31 Matthew Poole's Commentary q.d. 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. âRemember that you are dust, and to dust you shall returnâ (from the liturgy for Ash Wednesday, from the Book of Common Prayer).. James 1:15 Leviticus : Young's The death we are intended to understand is the second death. We inherit mortal life through Adam, but God gives His Spirit to endow eternal life on His faithful and obedient children. See what over 145,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. Christ says, "I am come that they might have life and have it more abundantly." Revelation 20:10. Death, then, is what we "earn" as a result of committing sin. Matthew 6:9-13 They are so simple and so basic that you must believe in them. Genesis 2:7 Consider that, in the scenario of killing in self-defense, the one killing is judging that his life is more important than the life he is willing to snuff out. (5) it becomes us, therefore, to flee from the wrath to come. Sabbat, fol. (3) if the sinner is lost, he will deserve to die. NIV: New International Version . ⦠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." Revelation 20:10 Does Scripture Allow for Killing in Self-Defense? Earl L. Henn (1934-1997) 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. 115. 4. God says that the "wages" of sin—that is, what you "earn" for transgressing God's law—is death. (11) Death is the punishment due to sin, but we are sanctified freely, to everlasting life. 6:21-23 The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. (5) To stimulate this holy rivalry, let us often "look back to the rock whence we were hewn, the hole of the pit whence we were digged," in search of the enduring advantages and permanent satisfactions which the service of Sin yielded; and when we find to our "shame" only gall and wormwood, let us follow a godless life to its proper "end," until, finding ourselves in the territories of "death," we are fain to hasten back to survey the service of Righteousness, that new Master of all believers, and find Him leading us sweetly into abiding "holiness," and landing us at length in "everlasting life" (Ro 6:20-22). It has been said that the theme o⦠(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." Genesis 3:4 Matthew 8:2 By using this term, the apostle shows what sort of pay the usurper, sin, gives to those who serve under his banners. 2 Corinthians 13:5 No man is so foolish and so wicked as he who is willing to reap the proper wages of sin. A wage is payment for work. Amen!" The Awesome Cost of Salvation. Benson CommentaryRomans 6:23. The end of sin is death. He is giving us of His life constantly. (4) they who are saved will be raised to heaven, not because they merit it, but by the rich and sovereign grace of God. No man is so foolish and so wicked as he who is willing to reap the proper wages of sin. Not a sinner will die who ought not to die. ὈΨΏΝΙΟΝ ΚΥΡΊΩς ΛΈΓΕΤΑΙ ΤῸ ΤΟῖς ΣΤΡΑΤΙΏΤΑΙς ΠΑΡᾺ ΤΟῦ ΒΑΣΙΛΈΩς ΔΕΔΟΜΈΝΟΝ ΣΙΤΗΡΈΣΙΟΝ, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Paul states that the effect of sin is death (Romans 6:23). David, p. 17. Galatians : Luke : (a) Misn. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Romans ⦠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." de Gratia et Libero Arbitrio, c. 9. Darby For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through—"in"Jesus Christ our Lord—This concluding verse—as pointed as it is brief—contains the marrow, the most fine gold, of the Gospel. 5th, Justification, whereby God forgives all past sin, and freely accepts the sinner, Romans 3:24. Find Romans 6:23 Sermon Illustrations, browse preaching ideas and sermon stories on Romans 6:23 We may remark, therefore,(1) That the one will be as long as the other. 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