In the end you will groan in anguish when disease consumes your body.
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,
- BSB At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
- 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;
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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 then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
- Rev 22:15Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
- Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Num 5:27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
- Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
- Prov 7:23Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.
- 1 Cor 5:4–5In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Deut 32:29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
- Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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