“What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.”
What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death. — Fruit (κάρπος, karpos) of sin is shame and θάνατος (thanatos, "death")—existential and eschatological. The rhetorical question exposes sin's bankruptcy: it promises satisfaction but delivers only disgrace. Paul appeals to the Roman Christians' own experience: the old way led nowhere.
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