Romans 7:5
3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
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.
6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt 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
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Read in contextGalatians 5:16–17
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Read in contextGalatians 5:24
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
Read in contextGalatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the 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.
Read in contextRomans 6:13
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Read in contextRomans 6:21
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Read in contextColossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Read in context1 John 3:4
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
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