Parallel Verses
Godbey New Testament
For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
New American Standard Bible
For while we were
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For when we were in the flesh,
International Standard Version
For while we were living according to our human nature, sinful passions were at work in our bodies by means of the Law, to bear fruit resulting in death.
A Conservative Version
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.
American Standard Version
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Amplified
When we were living in the flesh [trapped by sin], the sinful passions, which were awakened by [that which] the Law [identifies as sin], were at work in our body to bear fruit for death [since the willingness to sin led to death and separation from God].
An Understandable Version
For when we were in the flesh [i.e., before conversion], our sinful desires, aroused by [the restrictions of] the law of Moses, worked in our bodies to produce activity that led to [spiritual] death.
Anderson New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:
Bible in Basic English
For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
Common New Testament
While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.
Darby Translation
For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
Goodspeed New Testament
For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.
John Wesley New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, sinful passions, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so as to bring forth fruit unto death.
Julia Smith Translation
For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
King James 2000
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.
Modern King James verseion
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
Moffatt New Testament
For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;
Montgomery New Testament
For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.
NET Bible
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
New Heart English Bible
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Noyes New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death.
Sawyer New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death;
The Emphasized Bible
For, when we were in the flesh, the susceptibilities of sins which were through the law, used to be energized in our members unto the bringing forth of fruit unto death;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
Twentieth Century New Testament
When we were living merely earthly lives, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were active in every part of our bodies, with the result that our lives bore fruit for Death.
Webster
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 to death:
Weymouth New Testament
For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.
Williams New Testament
For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.
World English Bible
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Worrell New Testament
For, when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, were working in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
Worsley New Testament
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions while we were under the law operated in our bodies so as to bring forth fruit unto death.
Youngs Literal Translation
for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
Themes
death » Figurative of regeneration
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » In bondage to sin
Law » Christ being the end of the law
Law » What occurs when there is no law
The law of God » Man, by nature, not in subjection to
Topics
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Released From The Law Through Death
4 So, my brethren, ye are dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, to him who is risen from the dead, in order that we may bring forth fruit unto God. 5 For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 6 But now we have been made free from the law, being dead in that in which we were held; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Cross References
Romans 6:13
neither present your members arms of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members arms of righteousness unto God.
Romans 6:21
What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
John 3:6
That which has been born of the flesh is flesh; and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 1:26
On account of this God gave them up to the lusts of dishonor: for indeed their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature:
Romans 3:20
Therefore no flesh shall be justified by works of law: for through law there is a perfect knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:15
For the law works out wrath: for where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Romans 5:20
But the law came, that the transgression might abound; but where sin did abound, there did grace superabound:
Romans 6:19
I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,
Romans 7:7-13
Then what shall we say? is the law sin? It could not be so; but I did not know sin except through the law: for indeed I had not known lusts, unless the law said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 7:23
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 which is in my members.
Romans 8:8-9
But those being in depravity are not able to please God.
1 Corinthians 15:56
But the sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law.
2 Corinthians 3:6-9
who also rendered us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit creates life.
Galatians 3:10
For so many as are of works of law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who does not abide in all things which have been written in the book of the law, to do the same.
Galatians 5:16-17
And I say, Walk about in the Spirit, and do not perfect the lust of carnality.
Galatians 5:19-21
But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery,
Galatians 5:24
But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also:
Ephesians 2:11
Therefore remember, that when you were Gentiles in the flesh, called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, made in the flesh with hands;
Colossians 3:5
Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Titus 3:3
For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;
James 1:15
Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death.
James 2:9-10
But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
James 4:1
Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?
1 John 3:4
Every one doing sin does also a transgression of the law: and sin is the transgression of the law.