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

They who are earthly cannot please God.

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

This is what I have to say--Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature.

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our very nature exposed us to the Divine Wrath, like the rest of mankind.

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Which

For 'no human being will be pronounced righteous before God' as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.

Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.

Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving-kindness of God was lavished the more,

It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power.

Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.

All who rely upon obedience to Law are under a curse, for Scripture says--'Cursed is every one who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law, and do it.'

But, if you worship rank, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.

Every one who lives sinfully is living in violation of Law. Sin is violation of Law.

Did work

But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.

Members

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

Bring

But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is Death.

General references

And to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them.