Romans 7:5

New American Bible - revised edition

For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.

John 3:6

What is born of flesh is flesh and what is born of spirit is spirit.

Romans 1:26

Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural,

Romans 3:20

since no human being will be justified in his sight by observing the law; for through the law comes consciousness of sin. Justification Apart from the Law.

Romans 4:15

For the law produces wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

Romans 5:20

The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,

Romans 6:13

And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 6:21

But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 7:23

but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

2 Corinthians 10:3

For, although we are in the flesh, we do not battle according to the flesh,

Galatians 3:10

For all who depend on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not persevere in doing all the things written in the book of the law.”

Galatians 5:24

Now those who belong to Christ [Jesus] have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 2:11

Therefore, remember that at one time you, Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by those called the circumcision, which is done in the flesh by human hands,

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

James 1:15

Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.

James 4:1

Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions that make war within your members?

1 John 3:4

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.