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Romans 7:5

James 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;

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among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

Well, what did you gain then by it all? Nothing but what you are now ashamed of! The end of all that is death;

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness,

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Remember, then, that once upon a time you Gentiles in the flesh, who are called 'the Uncircumcision' by that so-called 'Circumcision' which is itself the product of human hands in the flesh —

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

Sin's wage is death, but God's gift is life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

Law slipped in to aggravate the trespass; sin increased, but grace surpassed it far,

(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural,

What is born of the flesh is flesh: what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

I do live in the flesh, but I do not make war as the flesh does;




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