Dictionary entry

Wages

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

The law and the gospel both require the full and prompt payment of a just equivalent for all services rendered according to agreement, Le 19:13Jer 22:13Jas 5:4. Eternal death is the wages or just recompense of sin; while eternal life is not a recompense earned by obedience, but a sovereign gift of God, Ro 6:22-23.