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

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.

I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Which

For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.

For the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more

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

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit produces life.

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.

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

Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law; sin is the breaking of law.

Did work

And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious:

sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

Members

But I see a different law in the parts of my body,

waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.

And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

Bring

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

General references

and you once walked in these things when you were living in them.