Romans 6:21

Shame Sin Death and loss

¹⁹ I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

²⁰ For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
KJV: What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
WEB: What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
ASV: What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
DARBY: What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* [is] death.
BLB: What fruit, therefore, were you⁺ having then in the [things] of which you⁺ are now ashamed? For the end of those [things] [is] death.

ÅB: Hva slags frukt hadde dere da? Slik som dere skammer dere over nå, for den ender i døden.
OTB: Hvilken frukt hadde dere da av de ting som dere nå skammer dere over? For enden på dem er død.
B1930: Hvad frukt hadde I da dengang? Slikt som I nu skammer eder over; for utgangen på det er døden.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Romans 1:32
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
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Romans 7:5
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
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Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Galatians 6:7–8
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
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Proverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
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Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
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Jeremiah 8:12
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
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Romans 8:6
The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,
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