Romans 7:5

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that ye should be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

6But now we are delivered from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies.

Romans 1:26For this cause God gave them up to vile passions; for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature;

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

Romans 6:13nor yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 6:21What fruit therefore had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Far be it! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I had not known coveting, if the law had not said: Thou shalt 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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