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

Those who are in the flesh cannot satisfy God.

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh.

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Which

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

but if you pay servile regard to people, you commit a sin, and the Law convicts you of transgression.

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness,

Did work

The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire ??for sin, apart from law, is lifeless.

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

Members

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

Bring

Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death;

General references

Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;