Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

In Context

4Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, FALSE witnessings, revilings.

Romans 1:26Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature.

Romans 4:15For the law works wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 6:13And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God,

Romans 6:21What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 7:7What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

Matthew Henry on Romans 7:2-7

Observations Respecting the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 1 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? 2 For the woman which hath a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no… Read the whole commentary →

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