What does Romans 6:23 say about death and eternal life?

Les explains that Romans 6:23 is a verse to use when dealing with someone, letting them read it for themselves rather than taking your word. He says the wages of sin are death, and wages are something you work for; they are never a gift. The old Adamic nature we are born with has only one direction—death, eternal death—and everything a lost person does, good or bad, piles up wages for eternal doom. But the last half says the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Wages are what you deserve; a gift is undeserved. Salvation is that gift, not something earned by works.