Romans 7:5

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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

Indeed, those who are under the control of human nature cannot please God.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

After all, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures, spending our days in malice and jealousy. We were despised, and we hated one another.

Which

Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.

for the Law produces wrath. Now where there is no Law, neither can there be any violation of it.

Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,

Now death's stinger is sin, and sin's power is the Law.

who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

Certainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!"

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and will be convicted by the Law as violators.

Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience.

Did work

But sin seized the opportunity provided by this commandment and produced in me all kinds of sinful desires, since apart from the Law, sin is dead.

It is out of the heart that evil thoughts come, as well as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, false testimony, and slander.

Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,

When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

Members

but I see in my body a different principle waging war with the Law in my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin that exists in my body.

Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?

Bring

What benefit did you get from doing those things you are now ashamed of? For those things resulted in death.

General references

You used to behave like them as you lived among them.