Romans 6:21

But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is death.

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

In Context

20While you were still servants of sin, you were free as regards righteousness.

22But now that you have been set free from the control of sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever increasing holiness, and the end eternal life.

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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 →

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