Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.

English Majority Text (NT)

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, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit to God.

6But now we were released from the law, having died in that to which we were held fast, so that we should serve as slaves in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. 1 Sin's Advantage in the Law

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them up to shameful lusts; for even their women exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature,

Romans 4:15because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law neither is there transgression.

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

Romans 6:21So what fruit did you have then of which things you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust unless the law had 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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