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

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

That which has been born of the flesh is flesh: and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desire of the flesh.

among whom we also all once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest;

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Which

because, by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the law is the knowledge of sin.

for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression.

And the law entered, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did super-abound;

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

Who also qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it has been written, "Cursed is every one who continues not in all the things written in the book of the law, to do them."

but, if ye show respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Every one who commits sin commits lawlessness also; and sin is lawlessness.

Did work

but sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, blasphemies:

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Then the desire, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.

Members

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Make dead, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which, indeed, is idolatry;

Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

Bring

What fruit, therefore, had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

General references

in which things ye also formerly walked, when ye were living in these things.