Romans 7:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 the flesh

Titus 3:3

Which

Did work

Members

Bring

Romans 6:21

General references

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

In the flesh

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Among them we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another.

Which

Therefore no flesh will be justified in his sight by works of the law, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

because the law brings wrath, for where there is no law there is no transgression.

Law came in, that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

who has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to do them."

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

Everyone who commits sin also commits lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Did work

But sin, finding opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetous desire. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornications, theft, false witness, slander.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,

Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is full-grown, it brings forth death.

Members

but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

Bring

But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.

General references

In these you once walked, when you lived in them.