Parallel Verses
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.
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;
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.
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 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 brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ so that you should be married to Another, even to Him raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sin worked in our members through the law to bring forth fruit to death. 6 But now we having been set free from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
Cross References
Romans 6:13
Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:21
What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;
John 3:6
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 1:26
For this cause, God gave them up to dishonorable affections. For even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.
Romans 3:20
because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:15
because the Law works out wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Romans 5:20
But the Law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,
Romans 6:19
I speak in the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to lawless act unto lawless act, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 7:7-13
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.
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 being in my members.
Romans 8:8-9
So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
2 Corinthians 3:6-9
who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.
Galatians 3:10
For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them."
Galatians 5:16-17
I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,
Galatians 5:24
But those belonging to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Ephesians 2:11
Therefore remember that you, the nations, in time past were in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Colossians 3:5
Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
James 1:15
Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death.
James 2:9-10
But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.
James 4:1
From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members?
1 John 3:4
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.