Romans 6:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ But then what benefit (return) did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None] for the end of those things is death.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Common English Bible

²¹ What consequences did you get from doing things that you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

Romans 6:21 Cross References

1 Kings 2:26

The king said to the priest Abiathar, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David and because you shared in all the hardships my father endured.”

Ezra 9:6

and said, “O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.

Job 33:27

That person sings to others and says, ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not paid back to me.

Job 40:4

“See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Job 42:6

therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Psalm 73:17

until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.

Proverbs 1:31

therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way and be sated with their own devices.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.

Proverbs 16:25

Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death.

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the innocent how fortunate they are, for they shall eat the fruit of their labors.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:10

I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come, yet you have the forehead of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 31:19

For after I had turned away I repented, and after I was discovered, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was dismayed because I bore the disgrace of my youth.”

Jeremiah 8:12

They acted shamefully; they committed abomination, yet they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 43:11

When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the plan of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, and its whole form—all its ordinances and its entire plan and all its laws; and write it down in their sight so that they may observe and follow the entire plan and all its ordinances.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned—

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 6:23

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

Romans 7:5

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 8:13

for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Romans 8:6

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We have renounced the shameful, underhanded ways; we refuse to practice cunning or to falsify God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we commend ourselves to the conscience of everyone in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 7:11

For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter.

Deuteronomy 17:6

On the evidence of two or three witnesses the death sentence shall be executed; a person must not be put to death on the evidence of only one witness.

Deuteronomy 21:22

“When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and is executed and you hang him on a tree,

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

Hebrews 10:29

How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?

Hebrews 6:8

But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and on the verge of being cursed; its end is to be burned over.

James 1:15

then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.

James 5:20

you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; if it begins with us, what will be the end for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

1 John 2:28

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.

Revelation 16:6

because they shed the blood of saints and prophets, you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”

Revelation 20:14

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire,