Wages of Sin (The)

To carn the wages of sin. To be hanged, or condemned to death.

“I believe some of you will be hanged unless you change a good deal. It’s cold blood and bad blood that runs in your veins, and youʹll come to earn the wages of sin.”—Boldrewood: Robbery under Arms, ii.

“The wages of sin is death.”—Rom. vi. 23.