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

for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

Which

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.

And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

Did work

Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

Members

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

Bring

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

General references

in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them;