Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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 then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God. 5 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. 6 But now we are delivered from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, that we might serve in the new life of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the letter.
Cross References
Romans 6:13
nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Romans 6:21
What fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, 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 vile passions. For even their women indulged in unnatural lust,
Romans 3:20
Because by works of the Law no flesh shall be accepted as righteous: for by the Law is the knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:15
For the Law is the cause of wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.
Romans 5:20
Moreover the law came in in addition, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded much more;
Romans 6:19
I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is everlasting life, through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7:7-13
What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet."
Romans 7:23
but I perceive 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
And 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 gave us ability to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
Galatians 3:10
For as many as rely on the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the Law, to do them."
Galatians 5:16-17
But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such as fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,
Galatians 5:24
And they who belong to Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts.
Ephesians 2:3
among whom even we all 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 children of wrath, even as others;
Ephesians 2:11
Wherefore remember, that in time past ye, the gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcised by those who are called circumcised, having the circumcision of the flesh, performed by hand,
Colossians 3:5
Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, going astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
James 1:15
then lust, having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when completed, bringeth forth death.
James 2:9-10
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
James 4:1
Whence are wars and whence are fightings among you? Are they not hence, from your lusts that war in your members?
1 John 3:4
Whoever committeth sin transgresseth thereby the law; for sin is a transgression of the law.