Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

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, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.

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 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;

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

ὅτε ὅτε ἥτε τοτε 
Hote 
Usage: 86

we were
εἰμί 
Eimi 
I am , am, it is I , be, I was , have been, not tr
Usage: 72

in
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

the flesh
σάρξ 
Sarx 
Usage: 130

the motions
πάθημα 
Pathema 
Usage: 16

of sins
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143


which, who, the things, the son,
Usage: 0

by
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527

the law
νόμος 
Nomos 
law
Usage: 179

ἐνεργέω 
Energeo 
Usage: 21

our
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

μέλος 
melos 
Usage: 32

to
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

καρποφορέω 
Karpophoreo 
Usage: 4

Context Readings

Released From The Law Through Death

4 So also, my brother, you were made dead to the Law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to Him who was raised from the dead that we might bear fruit for God. 5 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. 6 But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

Cross References

Romans 6:13

Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.

Romans 6:21

What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 1:26

That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature;

Romans 3:20

For no man will be justified in God's sight by works of the Law; for through the Law comes the consciousness of sin.

Romans 4:15

For law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 5:20

Now law was brought in so that transgression might abound; but where sin abounded, grace super-abounded;

Romans 6:23

FOR THE POOR WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE FREE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR MASTER.

Romans 7:7-13

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust.

Romans 7:23

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

Romans 8:8-9

And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

1 Corinthians 15:56

Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Law.

2 Corinthians 3:6-9

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

Galatians 3:10

but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

Galatians 5:16-17

This is my meaning. Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and appetites.

Ephesians 2:3

And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

Ephesians 2:11

Do not forget then, that you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called "uncircumcision" by the "circumcision" made in flesh by man's hand,

Colossians 3:5

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

Titus 3:3

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

James 1:15

Then lust conceives and gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is mature, brings forth death.

James 2:9-10

If you have the spirit of caste you are committing sin, and are convicted by the Law as transgressors.

James 4:1

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

1 John 3:4

Every one who commits sin commits also lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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