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James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Romans 6:23

GOD’S GIFT‘The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ Romans 6:23 If death—death both temporal and eternal—is the wages of sin, what, we may ask, is the wages of righteousness? Can we earn life by obeying God, even as sinners earn death by obeying the devil? Alas! if this were our only hope of life, we should be of all men the most miserable. Who among us can say, ‘I am holy; I obey all God’s commandments; I look forward to eternal life as the fair wages of my service’?... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:1-23

Salvation To The Uttermost (5:1-8:39). The depths of our sin having been revealed in Romans 1:17 to Romans 3:23, and Jesus Christ’s activity, (His activity in bringing about our salvation through the cross by means of the reckoning to us of His righteousness by faith), having been made known in Romans 3:24 to Romans 4:25, Paul now sets about demonstrating the consequences of this for all true believers (Romans 5:1 to Romans 8:39). He wants us immediately to recognise that being ‘accounted as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:15-23

We Are Therefore No Longer To Be Servants Of Sin, But Servants Of Righteousness And Of God, No Longer Earning Death As Our Wages, But Receiving The Free Gift Of Eternal Life In Christ Jesus Our Lord (6:15-23). The question now is, ‘If we are not under the Law but under grace, does that mean that we can sin freely?’ To those who understand what it means to be ‘under grace’ the question answers itself. As has already been emphasised to be ‘under grace’ is to be within the sphere of the loving... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:23

‘ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ For the only wages that sin paid was death, and what lay beyond. That was the consequence of serving sin. But in contrast God’s free gift to His own was eternal life, a life which was found in Christ Jesus our LORD. Note the contrast between ‘wages’ and ‘free gift’. The one was earned, but the other was freely received without merit. It could not be earned whatever men did. It was abundantly... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:12-23

Romans 6:12-Isaiah : . The Christian’ s Severance from Sin. Romans 6:12 f. The conflict turns on the possession of the body: sin and God both claim the use of your “ limbs” ; sin must not “ reign in your mortal body,” though that body is in death’ s domain ( Romans 7:25, Romans 8:10 f.; cf. Romans 5:21). With the new man “ living to God in Christ Jesus” ( Romans 6:11), his “ limbs must be presented for weapons of righteousness,” no longer to be plied against God ( cf. Romans 12:1; 1... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 6:23

q.d. 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. Wages; the word properly signifies victuals. The Romans of old paid their soldiers with provision and victuals in recompence of their service; afterward they gave them money, but still... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 6:22-23

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 6:23.—Eternal life is not like wages due for service to God, as death is wages due for service to sin. Eternal life is a donative or free gift of God.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Romans 6:22-23Four stages in the Christian’s life.—The essentials of the Christian’s course are marked out for us in this short passage. We here get, as it were, a bird’s-eye view of all that is needful from the time of conversion to the period of entrance upon the blessing of everlasting... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 6:15-23

Romans 6:15-23 Bondmen of Righteousness. I. St. Paul's manner of thinking is frequently hard to follow. One peculiarity which contributes to make it a difficult exercise to track his reasoning is this: on the threshold of a fresh train of ideas, when the subject which fills his mind has been no more than started, it is not uncommon to find him suddenly break off in order to interject some side thought which has just occurred to him. Of this habit we have an instance before us. The objection... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 6:23

Romans 6:23 The Choice of Life. 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. He is setting this before us in a figure; and it is, on the whole, the figure which is so familiar to us in our own baptismal service and catechism. Both, he tells us, involve service. In some of the expressions he is thinking of the service of a servant,... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Romans 6:23

DISCOURSE: 1850MAN’S DESERT, AND GOD’S MERCYRomans 6:23. The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.THE distribution of rewards and punishments in the day of judgment will be in perfect agreement with the works of men; the righteous will be exalted to happiness; the wicked be doomed to misery. The Gospel makes no difference with respect to this: it provides relief for the penitent, but rather aggravates than removes the condemnation of the... read more

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