Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.

Noyes Bible

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

4So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.

6But now we are delivered from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, that we might serve in the new life of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the letter.

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Cross References

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

Romans 1:26For this cause God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women indulged in unnatural lust,

Romans 4:15For the Law is the cause of wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

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

Romans 6:21What fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had 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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