Romans 6:21 NIV

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 6:21

(21) For.—(You had no fruit) for. &c. Some put the question at “then.” “What fruit had ye therefore (omitted in the Authorised version) at that time? Things of which ye are now ashamed; for their end is death.” But the construction of the Authorised version is probably best. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 6:1-23

No Compromise Romans 6:2 I. What did the Apostle mean by the Words Dead unto Sin? (1) He meant death of the Judicial Penalty of Sin beyond the power of sin to inflict its penalty upon us. The judicial idea runs through the whole Epistle. A criminal who has served his term of imprisonment for an offence against the law, at the expiration of his sentence is dead to that particular crime. The penalty will not be exacted of him twice over. Even so the Christian, who implicitly accepts Christ's... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 6:14-23

Chapter 15JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFERomans 6:14-23 - Romans 7:1-6AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle’s thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought us to self-surrender. We have seen the sacred obligations of our divine and wonderful liberty. We have had the miserable question, "Shall we cling to sin?" answered by an explanation of the rightness and the bliss of giving over our accepted persons, in the fullest liberty of will, to God, in... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 6:1-23

CHAPTER 6 1. Dead with Christ to Sin. (Romans 6:1-7 .) 2. Risen with Christ and Alive to God. (Romans 6:8-11 .) 3. Sin shall Not Have Dominion. (Romans 6:12-14 .) 4. Servants to Righteousness. (Romans 6:15-23 .) Romans 6:1-7 We have learned from the previous chapter that the justified believer is in Christ and fully identified with Him. God sees the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, no longer in Adam, but in Christ, the head of a new creation. “So if any one be in Christ, it is a new... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 6:21

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 study of righteousness and hatred of sin, the contrary results of both being set down before us.(u) The reward or payment. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:1-23

A Change of Masters With the headship of Christ established for the believer - a headship which has to do with new life in contrast to the old life inherited from Adam, and grace reigning where sin had reigned, grace abundantly above the enormity of the sin - there is a question that some would be much inclined to raise. The apostle anticipates and answers this in lovely, incontestable style. "What shall we say then?" What conclusion can be deduced from the plain truth of grace abounding over... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Romans 6:1-23

HUMANITY AND TWO ADAMS “Wherefore” leads back to chapter 3, where the apostle is referring to the sinful condition of all men. It was by one man that sin entered the world bringing physical death as a penalty, and that all have sinned is proven by the fact that all have paid that penalty (Romans 5:12 ). To be sure the law was not given to Moses till Sinai, but as “death reigned from Adam to Moses,” it is evident that there was a transgression of another law than that written on stone, for... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Romans 6:1-23

The Gospel According to Paul (Continued) Rom 6:8 This weary but necessary "if" meets us once more. "If we be dead with Christ' but is any man dead with the Saviour? Perhaps not. He is not dead because he has retired from the world. Monasticism is not self-extinction. But does any man wish to die with the Saviour? That is enough, in the meantime. Not "if we be dead" we are all dead in trespasses and sins; that is not the death referred to; the qualifying words are "with Christ." Were we... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Romans 6:18-23

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. (19) I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. (20) For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. (21) What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Romans 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: 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) read more