Romans 7:5

Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to 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

4Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.

6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what was gripping us, so as to slave in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19Because out of the heart proceed malignant thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions; in fact even their females exchanged the natural sexual function for that against nature;

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

Romans 6:13—do not present any part of your body to sin as an implement for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body parts to God as implements for righteousness.

Romans 6:21So what ‘fruit’ did you have at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? The end of those things is death!

Romans 7:7So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must 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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