Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for 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 were also made dead to the law through the body of Christ. This is so that you could be joined to another, that is, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might produce fruit for God.

6But now we have been released from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. This is so that we might serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander.

Romans 1:26Because of this, God gave them over to dishonorable passions, for their women exchanged natural relations for those that were unnatural.

Romans 4:15For the law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there is no trespass.

Romans 6:13Do not present the parts of your body to sin, to be tools used for unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and present the parts of your body to God as tools to be used for righteousness.

Romans 6:21At that time, what fruit then did you have of the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

Romans 7:7What will we say then? Is the law itself sin? May it never be. However, I would never have known sin, if it were not through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law 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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