Because of Christ, believers are granted salvation from sin and the promise of eternal life.
What hope we have in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus! Be encouraged by reading the
following Scriptures with commentary from the ESV Study 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.)
Those who give themselves to sin will die both physically and eternally,
whereas Christians are assured of eternal life. Wages implies that the punishment for sin
is what one has earned and what one deserves. Free gift is the opposite of something one deserves,
which fits Paul's earlier emphasis on justification by grace alone, through faith alone
(trusting in Christ for justification; see Rom. 1:17; Rom. 3:21–4:25).