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Pauline Epistles · Romans

Romans 6 — The Wages of Sin Is Death; But the Gift of God Is Eternal Life

Summary

Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? So many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death. Buried with Him by baptism unto death. Our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed. Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body. Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead. Ye are not under the law, but under grace. The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Key verse

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

— Romans 6:23

Outline
  1. v.1-14 Dead to sin, alive in Christ
  2. v.15-23 Servants of righteousness
Verse-by-verse
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Baptism dramatizes union with Christ's death and resurrection. The Christian's old life is buried; the new life is walked.

Newness of life. Not a tidied old life — a new one. The change is qualitative, not cosmetic.

Cross-references Colossians 2:12 · Galatians 3:27 · 2 Corinthians 5:17 · Ephesians 4:24
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Reckon. The accounting verb again. The Christian counts on a reality already true — dead to sin, alive to God.

Sanctification follows justification by faith's reckoning. We treat as true what God has declared. The old self is dead; live like it.

Cross-references Colossians 3:3 · Galatians 2:20 · Romans 6:6 · 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Sin shall not have dominion. A promise, not just a goal. Grace, not law, breaks sin's back.

Counterintuitively, those under grace sin less, not more. The law's diagnosis without its cure produced multiplied transgression; grace produces obedience.

Cross-references Romans 7:6 · Galatians 5:18 · Titus 2:11-14 · 1 John 3:6
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Wages... gift. The contrast is precise. Sin pays; God gives. One is earned; the other is received.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord. The means of the gift. The chapter ends as it has run — eternal life flows through the Person.

Cross-references Romans 5:12 · James 1:15 · John 3:16 · 1 John 5:11
Key doctrines
Union With Christ in Death and Resurrection
Romans 6:4 · Colossians 2:12 · Galatians 3:27
Reckoning Dead to Sin, Alive to God
Romans 6:11 · Galatians 2:20 · Colossians 3:3
Grace Breaking Sin's Dominion
Romans 6:14 · Titus 2:11-14 · Galatians 5:18
The Wages of Sin and the Gift of Life
Romans 6:23 · James 1:15 · John 3:16
Application

Verse 11's reckoning is the daily discipline of the believer. When sin presses, the Christian says — that is not who I am anymore; I am dead to that and alive to God. The reckoning is faith's response to what is already true. Practice it today.

Christ in this chapter

Romans 6 ties the Christian life to Christ's death and resurrection. We are not improved versions of our old selves; we are new selves united to His resurrection. Every motive for holiness in the chapter is rooted in Him. The gift of eternal life flows through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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