Verse of the Day

　　

Romans 6:21

What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

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

English Standard Version

But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

The Message

But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you're proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.

New King James Version

What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

New Living Translation

And what was the result? It was not good, since now you are ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom.

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on Romans 6:21-23

(Read Romans 6:21-23)

　　The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Shame came into the world with sin, and is still the certain effect of it. The end of sin is death. Though the way may seem pleasant and inviting, yet it will be bitterness in the latter end. From this condemnation the believer is set at liberty, when made free from sin. If the fruit is unto holiness, if there is an active principle of true and growing grace, the end will be everlasting life; a very happy end! Though the way is up-hill, though it is narrow, thorny, and beset, yet everlasting life at the end of it is sure. The gift of God is eternal life. And this gift is through Jesus Christ our Lord. Christ purchased it, prepared it, prepares us for it, preserves us to it; he is the All in all in our salvation.

　　

Romans 6:21 In-Context

19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.

　　20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.

　　21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!

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

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