This passage from Romans discusses the difference between wages and gifts in relation to sin and salvation. It states that sin leads to death, which are the wages of sin. All people have sinned and fallen short of God's glory. However, salvation is a free gift from God through faith in Jesus Christ, not based on works. The gift of eternal life through Jesus greatly outweighs the wages of sin, which is death.

2. Romans 6:15-23
15 What then? Shall we sin because we
are not under law but under grace?
Certainly not!

3. Romans 6:15-23
16 Do you not know that to whom you
present yourselves slaves to obey, you
are that one’s slaves whom you obey,
whether of sin leading to death, or of
obedience leading to righteousness?

4. Romans 6:15-23
17 But God be thanked that though you
were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from
the heart that form of doctrine to which
you were delivered. 18 And having been
set free from sin, you became slaves of
righteousness.

5. Romans 6:15-23
19 I speak in human terms because of the
weakness of your flesh. For just as you
presented your members as slaves of
uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading
to more lawlessness, so now present
your members as slaves of righteousness
for holiness.

6. Romans 6:15-23
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you
were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What fruit did you have then in the
things of which you are now ashamed?
For the end of those things is death.

7. Romans 6:15-23
22 But now having been set free from sin,
and having become slaves of God, you
have your fruit to holiness, and the end,
everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

9. Wages & Gifts

10. Wages & Gifts
Wages - recompense or return.
Something earned.
Gifts - something given
voluntarily without payment in
return.

11. Wages & Gifts
• Sin

12. 1John 3:4
(NKJV) Whoever commits sin also
commits lawlessness, and sin is
lawlessness.
(KJV) Whosoever committeth sin
transgresseth also the law: for sin is the
transgression of the law.

13. James 4:17
Therefore, to him who knows to do
good and does not do it, to him it is
sin.

14. Romans 3:23
...for all have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God…

15. Isaiah 59:1,2
1 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not
shortened, that it cannot save; nor His
ear heavy, that it cannot hear. 2 But your
iniquities have separated you from your
God; and your sins have hidden His face
from you, so that He will not hear.

17. Wages & Gifts
• Sin

18. Wages & Gifts
• Sin
• The Wages of Sin

19. Genesis 2:15-17
15 Then the LORD God took the man and
put him in the garden of Eden to tend
and keep it. 16 And the LORD God
commanded the man, saying, “Of every
tree of the garden you may freely eat;

20. Genesis 2:15-17
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil you shall not eat, for in the
day that you eat of it you shall surely
die.”

21. Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as through one man sin
entered the world, and death through
sin, and thus death spread to all
men, because all sinned—

22. 2Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ, that each
one may receive the things done
in the body, according to what he has
done, whether good or bad.

24. Wages & Gifts
• Sin
• The Wages of Sin

25. Wages & Gifts
• Sin
• The Wages of Sin
• The Gift of God

26. Ephesians 2:8,9
8 For by grace you have been saved
through faith, and that not of
yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not
of works, lest anyone should boast.

27. Romans 5:15
But the free gift is not like the
offense. For if by the one man’s offense
many died, much more the grace of
God and the gift by the grace of
the one Man, Jesus Christ,
abounded to many.

29. 2Corinthians 9:15
Thanks be to God for His
indescribable gift!

30. Wages & Gifts
• Sin
• The Wages of Sin
• The Gift of God