(the) wages of sin

(the) wages of sin
   death
   The venerable inducement to virtue was that only the good people survive in this life and the next. The modern usage may be more literal:
    For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life... {Romans 6: 23) I could have mentioned that the wages of sin are death — that the Union Captain's carnal desire for the powdered, rouged, weeping old woman we'd left that evening had brought him a well-deserved end. (Baldwin, 1993)

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