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The Empty Promise of Sin
Paul asks a rhetorical question: "What good 'fruit' did your old life of sin produce?" Commentators agree the answer is "nothing of value." They describe the supposed benefits of sin as ashes, poison from a beautiful serpent, or a harvest of vanity. The verse forces believers to honestly assess their past and recognize that sin's promises of pleasure and profit are ultimately deceptive and empty.
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Albert Barnes
On Romans 6:21
18th Century
Theologian
What fruit had you then, etc. What reward, or what advantage. This is an argument drawn from the experience of Christians concerning the i…
AT Robertson
On Romans 6:21
What fruit then had ye at that time? (τινα ουν καρπον ειχετε τοτε?). Imperfect active, used to have. A pertinent question. Ashes i…
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 6:21
19th Century
Bishop
For.—(You had no fruit) for, and so on. Some put the question at “then”: “What fruit had you therefore (omitted in the Au…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Romans 6:21
19th Century
Preacher
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 pleas…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 6:21
The pre-Christian state is undesirable, for it yields no benefit. In fact, it leaves behind memories that produce shame (v.21). On the other hand, …
John Calvin
On Romans 6:21
16th Century
Theologian
What fruit, then, etc. He could not more strikingly express what he intended than by appealing to their conscience, and by confes…
John Gill
On Romans 6:21
17th Century
Pastor
What fruit had you then in those things ?
&c.] That is, what profit, pleasure, satisfaction, or comfort, had you in …
Matthew Henry
On Romans 6:21–23
17th Century
Minister
The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. Sinners are merely ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Shame…