Parallel Verses

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.

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;

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.

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 And so with you, my Brothers; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God. 5 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. 6 But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.


Cross References

Romans 6:13

Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.

Romans 6:21

But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is Death.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

John 3:6

All that owes its birth to human nature is human, and all that owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.

Romans 1:26

That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural;

Romans 3:20

For 'no human being will be pronounced righteous before God' as the result of obedience to Law; for it is Law that shows what sin is.

Romans 4:15

Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.

Romans 5:20

Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving-kindness of God was lavished the more,

Romans 6:19

I can but speak as men do because of the weakness of your earthly nature. Once you offered every part of your bodies to the service of impurity, and of wickedness, which leads to further wickedness. Now, in the same way, offer them to the service of Righteousness, which leads to holiness.

Romans 6:23

The wages of Sin are Death, but the gift of God is Immortal Life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.

Romans 7:7-13

What are we to say, then? That Law and sin are the same thing? Heaven forbid! On the contrary, I should not have learned what sin is, had not it been for Law. If the Law did not say 'Thou shalt not covet,' I should not know what it is to covet.

Romans 7:23

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

Romans 8:8-9

They who are earthly cannot please God.

1 Corinthians 15:56

It is sin that gives death its sting, and it is the Law that gives sin its power.

2 Corinthians 3:6-9

Our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a New Covenant, of which the substance is, not a written Law, but a Spirit. For the written Law means Death, but the Spirit gives Life.

Galatians 3:10

All who rely upon obedience to Law are under a curse, for Scripture says--'Cursed is every one who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law, and do it.'

Galatians 5:16-17

This is what I have to say--Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature.

Galatians 5:19-21

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.

Ephesians 2:3

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our very nature exposed us to the Divine Wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 2:11

Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called 'The Uncircumcised' by those who were called 'The Circumcised'--circumcised only by the hand of man!

Colossians 3:5

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

Titus 3:3

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

James 1:15

Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.

James 2:9-10

But, if you worship rank, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.

James 4:1

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

1 John 3:4

Every one who lives sinfully is living in violation of Law. Sin is violation of Law.

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