At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
Parallel translations
- WEB You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
- KJV And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
- NKJV And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed,
- NASB And you will groan in the end, When your flesh and your body are consumed;
- NLT In the end you will groan in anguish when disease consumes your body.
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Quick answer
At the end you will groan as your body is consumed. Sexual sin leads to bitter regret and bodily ruin.
Overview
The father pictures the end of an immoral life: groaning in anguish as flesh and body waste away. The consequences are not only social and financial but physical, ending in remorse. This grim outcome stands as a solemn warning to choose the path of life while there is time.
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Cross-references · 9
- Rom 6:21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
- Rev 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Heb 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Num 5:27When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
- Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Prov 7:23until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.
- 1 Cor 5:4–5When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
- Deut 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
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