What is the penalty of sin?

• A. The wages of sin is death.
• B. Sin has no penalty.
• C. Sin is life.
• D. The wages of sin is wealth.

Answer: (A)

Sin carries a price: what you earn for disobedience to God is death. In Scripture, wages are the natural payoff for actions, so sin earns a death penalty that includes spiritual separation from God now and ultimately physical death, and without reconciliation leads to eternal separation. This matches the biblical teaching that the wages of sin is death. Statements that there is no penalty, that sin is life, or that the wage is wealth conflict with what the Bible teaches about sin’s true consequence.