Parallel Verses
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;
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.
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.
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
Interlinear
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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 that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God; 5 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; 6 and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
Cross References
Romans 6:13
neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
Romans 6:21
what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those is death.
Matthew 15:19
for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
John 3:6
that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
Romans 1:26
Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;
Romans 3:20
wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:15
for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.
Romans 5:20
And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,
Romans 6:19
In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,
Romans 6:23
for the wages of the sin is death, and the gift of God is life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 7:7-13
What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:
Romans 7:23
and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.
Romans 8:8-9
for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
1 Corinthians 15:56
and the sting of the death is the sin, and the power of the sin the law;
2 Corinthians 3:6-9
who also made us sufficient to be ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.
Galatians 3:10
for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'
Galatians 5:16-17
And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;
Galatians 5:19-21
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Galatians 5:24
and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
Ephesians 2:3
among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,
Ephesians 2:11
Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
Titus 3:3
for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
James 1:15
afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.
James 2:9-10
and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;
James 4:1
Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
1 John 3:4
Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,