Romans 6:21

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Romans 6:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

21 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.

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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.

Proverbs 1:31

So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

Proverbs 5:11

At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

Proverbs 5:12

and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 5:13

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.

Proverbs 9:17

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

Proverbs 9:18

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Jeremiah 17:10

I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

Jeremiah 44:20

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,

Jeremiah 44:21

“As for the incense you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem—you, your fathers, your kings, your officials, and the people of the land—did the LORD not remember and bring this to mind?

Jeremiah 44:22

So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Jeremiah 44:23

Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD, and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in His instruction, His statutes, and His testimonies, this disaster has befallen you, as you see today.”

Jeremiah 44:24

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear the word of the LORD, all those of Judah who are in the land of Egypt.

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.

Galatians 6:8

The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Ezra 9:6

and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

Job 40:4

“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.

Job 42:6

Therefore I retract my words, and I repent in dust and ashes.”

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

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.

Jeremiah 31:19

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

Ezekiel 16:61

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.

Ezekiel 16:62

So I will establish My covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD,

Ezekiel 16:63

so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”

Ezekiel 36:31

Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.

Ezekiel 36:32

It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD—let it be known to you. Be ashamed and disgraced for your ways, O house of Israel!

Ezekiel 43:11

and if they are ashamed of all they have done, then make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement and its exits and entrances—its whole design along with all its statutes, forms, and laws. Write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its complete design and all its statutes and may carry them out.

Daniel 9:7

To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.

Daniel 9:8

O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.

Daniel 12:2

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Luke 15:17

Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

Luke 15:18

I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

Luke 15:19

I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.”’

Luke 15:20

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

Luke 15:21

The son declared, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

2 Corinthians 7:11

Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

1 John 2:28

And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming.

Romans 6:23

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

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.

Deuteronomy 17:6

On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.

Deuteronomy 21:22

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

2 Samuel 12:5

David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!

2 Samuel 12:6

Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”

2 Samuel 12:7

Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.

1 Kings 2:26

Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”

Psalms 73:17

until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

Proverbs 14:12

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

Proverbs 16:25

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

Philippians 3:19

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

Hebrews 6:8

But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

Hebrews 10:29

How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

James 1:15

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

James 5:20

consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

1 Peter 4:17

For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

Revelation 16:6

For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as 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.