Romans 6:21
What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:6By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall he die that is to be slain. Let no man be put to death, when only one beareth witness against him.
2 Samuel 12:5And David's anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he said to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a child of death.
Ezra 9:6And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,
Job 42:6Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.
Proverbs 1:31Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 9:17Stolen waters are sweeter, and hid den bread is more pleasant.
Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23
On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →