Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 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." — Romans 6:21 (ASV)

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

You had such pleasure as sin could give you, but was it worth having? You derived some profit, perhaps, from evil pursuits; but did the profit ever make up for the loss which you sustained as a result? O you who have had experience of sin to the full, has it, after all, turned out to be the fair and lovely thing that it once seemed to be? No, the serpent had azure scales, but its fangs have poured poison into your blood. It came to you with all manner of deceivableness of unrighteousness, like Jezebel with her painted face, but it has worked for you nothing but sorrow and suffering, and it will work your eternal ruin unless God, in his great mercy, shall prevent it.