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 # For the wages of sin are death
 
-"For if you serve sin, you will receive spiritual death as payment" or "For if you continue sinning, God will punish you with spiritual death"
+"For if you continue sinning, God will punish you with spiritual death"
 
 # but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord