Romans 6:22

“ But now, being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit holiness, and your end everlasting life. ”

For the abstract master designated above, namely righteousness, Paul here substitutes God Himself; for in Christ it is to the living God the believer is united. The form of expression used by Paul, literally rendered, would be: “Ye have your fruit in the direction of holiness.” It is to the state of holiness that ye are brought. Such, in fact, is the result of action constantly kept up in dependence on God. Every duty discharged is a step on the way at the end of which God's servant sees the sublime ideal of ἁγιασμός, completed holiness, shining.

To this fruit God is pleased to add what Paul calls the end: eternal life. Besides holiness, this expression embraces glory, imperishable happiness, perfect activity.

In Romans 6:23 the apostle sums up in a few definite strokes those two contrasted pictures.