Romans 7:5

For while we were in the flesh, the emotions of sin which are by the law, were active in our members, that we should bear fruits unto death.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

4And now, my brethren, ye also have become dead to the law, by the body of Messiah; that ye might be joined to another, even to him who arose from the dead; and might yield fruits unto God.

6But now we are absolved from the law, and are dead to that which held us in its grasp: that we might henceforth serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For, from the heart proceed evil thoughts, adultery, murder, whoredom, theft, false testimony, reviling.

Romans 1:26For this cause, God gave them up to vile passions: for their females changed the use of their natures, and employed that which is unnatural.

Romans 4:15For the law is a worker of wrath; because where no law is, there is no transgression of law.

Romans 6:13And also give not up your members as instruments of evil unto sin, but give up yourselves to God, as those who have been resuscitated from the dead; and let your members be instruments for the righteousness of God.

Romans 6:21And what harvest had ye then, in that of which ye are now ashamed? For the result thereof is death.

Romans 7:7What shall we say then? Is the law sin?, Far be it. For I had not learned sin, except by means of the law: for I had not known concupiscence, had not the law 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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