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Text -- Romans 6:21 (NET)

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6:21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Robertson: Rom 6:21 - -- What fruit then had ye at that time? ( tina oun karpon eichete totė ). Imperfect active, used to have. A pertinent question. Ashes in their hands n...

What fruit then had ye at that time? ( tina oun karpon eichete totė ).

Imperfect active, used to have. A pertinent question. Ashes in their hands now. They are ashamed now of the memory of them. The end of them is death.

Vincent: Rom 6:21 - -- Fruit See on Rom 1:13.

Fruit

See on Rom 1:13.

Vincent: Rom 6:21 - -- Had ye ( εἴχετε ) Imperfect tense, denoting continuance. What fruit were ye having during your service of sin?

Had ye ( εἴχετε )

Imperfect tense, denoting continuance. What fruit were ye having during your service of sin?

Vincent: Rom 6:21 - -- In the things whereof ( ἐφ ' οἷς ) Some change the punctuation, and read " What fruit had ye at that time? Things whereof ye are now a...

In the things whereof ( ἐφ ' οἷς )

Some change the punctuation, and read " What fruit had ye at that time? Things whereof ye are now ashamed." But the majority of the best texts reject this, and besides, the question is of having fruit , not of the quality of the fruit.

Wesley: Rom 6:21 - -- He speaks of them as afar off.

He speaks of them as afar off.

JFB: Rom 6:21 - -- What permanent advantage, and what abiding satisfaction, have those things yielded? The apostle answers his own question:--"Abiding satisfaction, did ...

What permanent advantage, and what abiding satisfaction, have those things yielded? The apostle answers his own question:--"Abiding satisfaction, did I ask? They have left only a sense of 'shame.' Permanent advantage? 'The end of them is death.'" By saying they were "now ashamed," he makes it plain that he is not referring to that disgust at themselves, and remorse of conscience by which those who are the most helplessly "sold under sin" are often stung to the quick; but that ingenuous feeling of self-reproach, which pierces and weighs down the children of God, as they think of the dishonor which their past life did to His name, the ingratitude it displayed, the violence it did to their own conscience, its deadening and degrading effects, and the death--"the second death"--to which it was dragging them down, when mere Grace arrested them. (On the sense of "death" here, see on Rom 5:12-21, Note 3, and Rom 6:16 : see also Rev 21:8 --The change proposed in the pointing of this verse: "What fruit had ye then? things whereof ye are now ashamed" [LUTHER, THOLUCK, DE WETTE, PHILIPPI, ALFORD, &c.], seems unnatural and uncalled for. The ordinary pointing has at least powerful support [CHRYSOSTOM, CALVIN, BEZA, GROTIUS, BENGEL, STUART, FRITZSCHE]).

Clarke: Rom 6:21 - -- What fruit had ye then in those things - God designs that every man shall reap benefit by his service. What benefit have ye derived from the service...

What fruit had ye then in those things - God designs that every man shall reap benefit by his service. What benefit have ye derived from the service of sin

Clarke: Rom 6:21 - -- Whereof ye are now ashamed? - Ye blush to remember your former life. It was scandalous to yourselves, injurious to others, and highly provoking to G...

Whereof ye are now ashamed? - Ye blush to remember your former life. It was scandalous to yourselves, injurious to others, and highly provoking to God

Clarke: Rom 6:21 - -- The end of those things is death - Whatever sin may promise of pleasure or advantage, the end to which it necessarily tends is the destruction of bo...

The end of those things is death - Whatever sin may promise of pleasure or advantage, the end to which it necessarily tends is the destruction of body and soul.

Calvin: Rom 6:21 - -- 21.What fruit, then, etc. He could not more strikingly express what he intended than by appealing to their conscience, and by confessing shame as i...

21.What fruit, then, etc. He could not more strikingly express what he intended than by appealing to their conscience, and by confessing shame as it were in their person. Indeed the godly, as soon as they begin to be illuminated by the Spirit of Christ and the preaching of the gospel, do freely acknowledge their past life, which they have lived without Christ, to have been worthy of condemnation; and so far are they from endeavouring to excuse it, that, on the contrary, they feel ashamed of themselves. Yea, further, they call to mind the remembrance of their own disgrace, that being thus ashamed, they may more truly and more readily be humbled before God.

Nor is what he says insignificant, Of which ye are now ashamed; for he intimates that we are possessed with extreme blind love for ourselves, when we are involved in the darkness of our sins, and think not that there is so much filth in us. The light of the Lord alone can open our eyes to behold the filthiness which lies hid in our flesh. He only then is imbued with the principles of Christian philosophy, who has well learnt to be really displeased with himself, and to be confounded with shame for his own wretchedness. He shows at last still more plainly from what was to follow, how much they ought to have been ashamed, that is, when they came to understand that they had been standing on the very precipice of death, and had been nigh destruction; yea, that they would have already entered the gates of death, had they not been reclaimed by God’s mercy.

TSK: Rom 6:21 - -- What : Rom 7:5; Pro 1:31, Pro 5:10-13, Pro 9:17, Pro 9:18; Isa 3:10; Jer 17:10, Jer 44:20-24; Gal 6:7, Gal 6:8 whereof : Ezr 9:6; Job 40:4, Job 42:6; ...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Rom 6:21 - -- What fruit, then ... - What reward, or what advantage. This is an argument drawn from the experience of Christians respecting the indulgence of...

What fruit, then ... - What reward, or what advantage. This is an argument drawn from the experience of Christians respecting the indulgence of sinful passions. The question discussed throughout this chapter is, whether the gospel plan of justification by faith leads to indulgence in sin? The argument here is drawn from the past experience which Christians have had in the ways of transgression. They have tried it; they know its effects; they have tasted its bitterness; they have reaped its fruits. It is implied here that having once experienced these effects, and knowing the tendency of sin, they will not indulge in it now; compare Rom 7:5.

Whereof ye are now ashamed - Having seen their nature and tendency, you are now ashamed of them; compare Rom. 1; Eph 5:12, "For it is a shame to speak of those things which are done of them in secret,"2Co 4:2; Jud 1:13; Phi 3:19.

For the end - The tendency; the result. Those things lead to death.

Is death - Note, Rom 6:22.

Poole: Rom 6:21 - -- q.d. And this will be much more equal and reasonable, if you consider these three things: 1. How little fruit and satisfaction your former sins hav...

q.d. And this will be much more equal and reasonable, if you consider these three things:

1. How little fruit and satisfaction your former sins have afforded you in the very time of committing them.

2. How nothing but shame and sorrow doth follow upon the remembrance of them.

3. How death, yea, eternal death and damnation, (unless pardoning grace and mercy prevent it), will be the certain conclusion of them. And whether these things are true or not, I appeal to yourselves.

Haydock: Rom 6:20-22 - -- You were free from justice; that is, says St. John Chrysostom, you lived as no ways subject to justice, nor obedient to the law and precepts of God: ...

You were free from justice; that is, says St. John Chrysostom, you lived as no ways subject to justice, nor obedient to the law and precepts of God: an unhappy freedom, a miserable liberty, worse than the greatest slavery, the end of which is death, eternal death: of which sins with great reason you are now ashamed, when you are become the servants of God, and obedient to him, for which you will receive the fruit and reward of everlasting life in heaven. (Witham)

Gill: Rom 6:21 - -- What fruit had ye then in those things?.... That is, what profit, pleasure, satisfaction, or comfort, had ye in the commission of sin? Sin yields no r...

What fruit had ye then in those things?.... That is, what profit, pleasure, satisfaction, or comfort, had ye in the commission of sin? Sin yields no real profit to the servants of it. If a man, by sinful practices, could amass together the riches of the Indies, or gain the whole world, yet if his soul is lost thereby, what advantage would it be to him? he would be infinitely the loser by it; nor would all his wealth and riches profit him in the day of God's wrath and righteous judgment: nor is there any true pleasure in sin; persons may imagine within themselves they enjoy a real pleasure whilst they are serving divers lusts; but this is but imaginary, it is not real; and this imaginary pleasure is but for a season; it issues in bitterness and death: nor is there any satisfaction in it; when men have endeavoured to gratify their carnal lusts and sensual appetites in every way that can be devised, they still remain as they were; nor can they reflect with real satisfaction, and without some slinging remorse, upon the methods they have pursued to gain it: nor is there any true honour in sin, nothing but what is scandalous and disgraceful to human nature; shame, sooner or later, is the fruit of sin:

whereof ye are now ashamed; some men may be indeed for the present so hardened as not to blush and be ashamed at the commission of the vilest sins; such are they who have no sense of sin, have no fear of God, or regard to men; and so sin openly, and without any guise, glory in it, and make their boast of it: but when persons are wrought upon by the Spirit of God, they are ashamed of sin; which might be exemplified in the case of Adam and Eve, of Ephraim, of the prodigal son, and of the poor publican; the reason is, because light is struck into their hearts; and this makes manifest the odious and detestable nature of sin; sin is hereby seen in its own proper colours, as exceeding sinful, loathsome, and abominable: besides, the grace and goodness of God are discovered in the forgiveness of it; and the glory of God's purity and holiness, and the beauty and loveliness of Christ, are discerned by such persons; all which have a tendency to make them ashamed of sin, out of love with it, and to abhor it: and a good thing it is to be brought to be ashamed of sin here; for such who are not ashamed of it here, shall be brought to everlasting shame and confusion hereafter. Nay, this is not all; not only shame will be the fruit of sin, but it will also issue in death:

for the, end of those things is death: the profit, the reward, and wages of them is death: sin not only brings a spiritual or moral death on persons, on all the powers and faculties of their souls, and is followed with a corporeal death; but if grace prevent not, it will end in an eternal one; for however right and good the ways of sin may seem to the carnal mind, "the end thereof are the ways of death" (#Pr 14:12 16:25).

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rom 6:21 Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.

Geneva Bible: Rom 6:21 ( 10 ) What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the ( u ) end of those things [is] death. ( 10 ) An exhortation to the ...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Rom 6:1-23 - --1 We may not live in sin;2 for we are dead unto it;3 as appears by our baptism.12 Let not sin reign any more;18 because we have yielded ourselves to t...

MHCC: Rom 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 ...

Matthew Henry: Rom 6:1-23 - -- The apostle's transition, which joins this discourse with the former, is observable: " What shall we say then? Rom 6:1. What use shall we make of t...

Barclay: Rom 6:15-23 - --To a certain type of mind the doctrine of free grace is always a temptation to say, "If forgiveness is as easy and as inevitable as all that, if God...

Constable: Rom 6:1--8:39 - --IV. THE IMPARTATION OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS chs. 6--8 The apostle moved on from questions about why people need s...

Constable: Rom 6:1-23 - --A. The believer's relationship to sin ch. 6 "Subduing the power of sin is the topic of Rom. 6."172

Constable: Rom 6:15-23 - --2. Slavery to righteousness 6:15-23 In the first part of this chapter Paul explained that Christ has broken the bonds of sin that enslave the Christia...

College: Rom 6:1-23 - --6:1-8:39 - PART THREE THE ALL-SUFFICIENCY OF GRACE GIVES VICTORY OVER SIN Though some divide Paul's argument between chs. 4 and 5, with 5-8 forming...

McGarvey: Rom 6:21 - --What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death .

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Romans (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Romans Spring of a.d. 57 By Way of Introduction Integrity of the Epistle The genuineness of the Epistle is so generally adm...

JFB: Romans (Book Introduction) THE GENUINENESS of the Epistle to the Romans has never been questioned. It has the unbroken testimony of all antiquity, up to CLEMENT OF ROME, the apo...

JFB: Romans (Outline) INTRODUCTION. (Rom. 1:1-17) THE JEW UNDER LIKE CONDEMNATION WITH THE GENTILE. (Rom. 2:1-29) JEWISH OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. (Rom 3:1-8) THAT THE JEW IS S...

TSK: Romans (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Romans is " a writing," says Dr. Macknight, " which, for sublimity and truth of sentiment, for brevity and strength of expression,...

TSK: Romans 6 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Rom 6:1, We may not live in sin; Rom 6:2, for we are dead unto it; Rom 6:3, as appears by our baptism; Rom 6:12, Let not sin reign any mo...

Poole: Romans 6 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 6

MHCC: Romans (Book Introduction) The scope or design of the apostle in writing to the Romans appears to have been, to answer the unbelieving, and to teach the believing Jew; to confir...

MHCC: Romans 6 (Chapter Introduction) (Rom 6:1, Rom 6:2) Believers must die to sin, and live to God. (Rom 6:3-10) This is urged by their Christian baptism and union with Christ. (Rom 6:1...

Matthew Henry: Romans (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans If we may compare scripture with scripture, and take the opinion ...

Matthew Henry: Romans 6 (Chapter Introduction) The apostle having at large asserted, opened, and proved, the great doctrine of justification by faith, for fear lest any should suck poison out of...

Barclay: Romans (Book Introduction) A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF PAUL The Letters Of Paul There is no more interesting body of documents in the New Testament than the letter...

Barclay: Romans 6 (Chapter Introduction) Dying To Live (Rom_6:1-11) The Practice Of The Faith (Rom_6:12-14) The Exclusive Possession (Rom_6:15-23)

Constable: Romans (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical Background Throughout the history of the church, from postapos...

Constable: Romans (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1-17 A. Salutation 1:1-7 1. The writer 1:1 ...

Constable: Romans Romans Bibliography Alford, Henry. The Greek Testament. 4 vols. New ed. Cambridge: Rivingtons, 1881. ...

Haydock: Romans (Book Introduction) THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE ROMANS. INTRODUCTION. After the Gospels, which contain the history of Christ, and the Acts of...

Gill: Romans (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS Though this epistle is in order placed the first of the epistles, yet it was not first written: there were several epistles ...

Gill: Romans 6 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS 6 The Apostle having finished his design concerning the doctrine of justification, refutes the charge brought against it as ...

College: Romans (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION I. ROMANS: ITS INFLUENCE AND IMPORTANCE God's Word is a lamp to our feet and a light for our path (Ps 119:105), and no part of it shine...

College: Romans (Outline) VIII. OUTLINE PROLOGUE - 1:1-17 I. EPISTOLARY GREETING - 1:1-7 A. The Author Introduces Himself - 1:1 1. A Slave of Christ Jesus 2. Call...

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