Romans 6:21

Nevertheless, doing those things resulted in your being separated from God, so you did not benefit at all from doing the sinful things that you are now ashamed of. [RHQ]

Translation for Translators

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

20When you were like slaves because your sinful desires compelled you to do sinful things [MET], you were not concerned about behaving righteously [MET].

22But you have been freed { God has freed you} from letting the desire to sin control you. You have become as though you are [MET] the slaves of God. So now the result is that God has caused you to completely belong to him and, as a result, you will live eternally.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:6But you are allowed to execute such people only if at least two witnesses testify that they saw them doing that. They must not be executed if there is only one witness.

2 Samuel 12:5When David heard that, he was very angry about what the rich man had done. He said to Nathan, “I solemnly declare that the man who did that should be executed!

Ezra 9:6and this is what I prayed: “Yahweh my God, I am very ashamed to raise my head in front of you. The sins that we Israelis have committed are very great; it is as though they have risen up higher than our heads, and our guilt for committing those sins, it is as though it rises up to the heavens.

Job 42:6Therefore I ◄am ashamed of/withdraw► what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry for what I said.”

Proverbs 1:31So they will endure what will result [MET, DOU] from the evil way they have lived/behaved and the evil things they have planned to do.

Proverbs 9:17“ Just as water which you have stolen tastes very good and food that you eat by yourself tastes the best, if you have sex secretly with someone to whom you are not married, you will enjoy it very much.”

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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