Romans 6:21
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
20For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:6On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
2 Samuel 12:5David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
Job 42:6Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
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 →