Romans 7:5

While we were controlled by old nature, our sinful desires (as revealed by the law) were at work within us and resulted in 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

4In the same way, my friends, you've become dead to the law through the body of Christ, and so now you belong to someone else—Christ, who was raised from the dead so that we could live productive lives for God.

6But now we've been set free from the law, and have died to what kept us in chains, so that we can serve in the newness of the spirit and not the old letter of the law.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For what comes from the mind are evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and blasphemy

Romans 1:26That's why God abandoned them to their evil desires. Their women exchanged natural sex for that which is unnatural,

Romans 4:15For the law results in punishment —but if there's no law then it cannot be broken.

Romans 6:13and don't use any parts of your body as evil tools of sin. Instead dedicate yourselves to God as those who have been brought back from death to life, and use all parts of your body as tools to do something good for God.

Romans 6:21But what were the results back then? Aren't you ashamed of the things you did? Such things that lead to death!

Romans 7:7So what do we conclude? That the law is sin? Of course not! I wouldn't have known what sin was unless the law defined it. I wouldn't have realized that wanting to have other people's things for myself was wrong without the law that says, “Don't desire for yourself what belongs to someone else.”

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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