Romans 7:5
3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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;
- BLB
- For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins that [were] through the law were working in our members, to the bearing of fruit to death.
- ÅB
- For da vi var i kjøttet, virket de syndige lystene som ble vekket ved loven i våre lemmer, slik at vi bar frukt for døden.
- OTB
- For da vi var i kjøttets rike, var de syndige lidenskapene, som ble vekket av loven, i virksomhet i oss, slik at vi bar frukt for døden.
- B1930
- For da vi var i kjødet, virket de syndige lyster, som vaktes ved loven, således i våre lemmer at vi bar frukt for døden;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 2:3
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
Read in contextGalatians 5:16–17
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Read in contextGalatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Read in contextGalatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Read in contextRomans 6:13
Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
Read in contextRomans 6:21
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Read in contextColossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Read in context1 John 3:4
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
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