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

So then they 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.

I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Which

because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin.

because the Law works out wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression.

But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,

The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them."

But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.

Did work

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of lust. For apart from law sin was dead.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.

Members

but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members.

Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?

Bring

What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

General references

among whom you also once walked, when you lived in these.