Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

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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

4And so, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law, through the body of Christ, so that you may be another one who has risen from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

6But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Romans 1:26Because of this, God handed them over to shameful passions. For example, their females have exchanged the natural use of the body for a use which is against nature.

Romans 4:15For the law works unto wrath. And where there is no law, there is no law-breaking.

Romans 6:13Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.

Romans 6:21But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 7:7What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You 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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