Brewer's: Wages of Sin

(The). To earn 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 you'll come to earn the wages of sin.” —Boldrewood: Robbery under Arms, ii.

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

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