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A laborer receives wages at a barren field while a gardener freely gives fruit and a living sapling beside a flourishing path.
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Romans 6:20-23

Wages and Gift

Dead to Sin and Alive to God · Romans 6

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. The former fruit leads to shame and death; freedom from sin bears fruit toward sanctification and eternal life. Sin pays wages in death, but God freely gives eternal life in Messiah Jesus.

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20For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

21So what fruit did you have then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

22But now, having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Messiah Jesus our Lord.

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