Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
New American Standard Bible
For while we were
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.
Holman Bible
For when we were in the flesh,
International Standard Version
For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.
A Conservative Version
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.
American Standard Version
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Amplified
When we were living in the flesh [trapped by sin], the sinful passions, which were awakened by [that which] the Law [identifies as sin], were at work in our body to bear fruit for death [since the willingness to sin led to death and separation from God].
An Understandable Version
For when we were in the flesh [i.e., before conversion], our sinful desires, aroused by [the restrictions of] the law of Moses, worked in our bodies to produce activity that led to [spiritual] death.
Anderson New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:
Bible in Basic English
For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
Common New Testament
While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.
Darby Translation
For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
Godbey New Testament
For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Goodspeed New Testament
For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.
John Wesley New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, sinful passions, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so as to bring forth fruit unto death.
Julia Smith Translation
For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
King James 2000
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.
Modern King James verseion
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
Moffatt New Testament
For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;
Montgomery New Testament
For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.
New Heart English Bible
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Noyes New Testament
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.
Sawyer New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;
The Emphasized Bible
For, when we were in the flesh, the susceptibilities of sins which were through the law, used to be energized in our members unto the bringing forth of fruit unto death;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
Twentieth Century New Testament
When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.
Webster
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 to death:
Weymouth New Testament
For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
Williams New Testament
For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.
World English Bible
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Worrell New Testament
For, when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were working in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Worsley New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions while we were under the law operated in our bodies so as to bring forth fruit unto death.
Youngs Literal Translation
for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
Themes
death » Figurative of regeneration
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » In bondage to sin
Law » Christ being the end of the law
Law » What occurs when there is no law
The law of God » Man, by nature, not in subjection to
Topics
Interlinear
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Usage: 2128
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Released From The Law Through Death
4 So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.
Cross References
Romans 6:13
and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
Romans 6:21
So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
John 3:6
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 1:26
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,
Romans 3:20
For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:15
For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
Romans 5:20
Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
Romans 6:19
(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Romans 6:23
For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7:7-13
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
Romans 7:23
But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
Romans 8:8-9
Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
2 Corinthians 3:6-9
who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."
Galatians 5:16-17
But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
Galatians 5:24
Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest
Ephesians 2:11
Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh -- who are called "uncircumcision" by the so-called "circumcision" that is performed on the body by human hands --
Colossians 3:5
So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
James 1:15
Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
James 2:9-10
But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.
James 4:1
Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
1 John 3:4
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.