Romans 7:5

New Century Version

In the past, we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things that controlled our bodies, so the things we did were bringing us death.

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.

John 3:6

Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.

Romans 1:26

Because people did those things, God left them and let them do the shameful things they wanted to do. Women stopped having natural sex and started having sex with other women.

Romans 3:20

because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Romans 4:15

because the law can only bring God’s anger. But if there is no law, there is nothing to disobey.

Romans 5:20

The law came to make sin worse. But when sin grew worse, God’s grace increased.

Romans 6:13

Do not offer the parts of your body to serve sin, as things to be used in doing evil. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used in doing good.

Romans 6:19

I use this example because this is hard for you to understand. In the past you offered the parts of your body to be slaves to sin and evil; you lived only for evil. In the same way now you must give yourselves to be slaves of goodness. Then you will live only for God.

Romans 6:21

You did evil things, and now you are ashamed of them. Those things only bring death.

Romans 6:23

The payment for sin is death. But God gives us the free gift of life forever in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law working in my body, which makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and it makes me its prisoner.

1 Corinthians 15:56

Death’s power to hurt is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

2 Corinthians 10:3

We do live in the world, but we do not fight in the same way the world fights.

Galatians 3:10

But those who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse, because the Scriptures say, “Anyone will be cursed who does not always obey what is written in the Book of the Law.”

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their own sinful selves. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Ephesians 2:11

You were not born Jewish. You are the people the Jews call “uncircumcised.” Those who call you “uncircumcised” call themselves “circumcised.” (Their circumcision is only something they themselves do on their bodies.)

Ephesians 2:3

In the past all of us lived like them, trying to please our sinful selves and doing all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We should have suffered God’s anger because we were sinful by nature. We were the same as all other people.

Colossians 3:5

So put all evil things out of your life: sexual sinning, doing evil, letting evil thoughts control you, wanting things that are evil, and greed. This is really serving a false god.

Titus 3:3

In the past we also were foolish. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We spent our lives doing evil and being jealous. People hated us, and we hated each other.

James 1:15

This desire leads to sin, and then the sin grows and brings death.

James 4:1

Do you know where your fights and arguments come from? They come from the selfish desires that war within you.

1 John 3:4

The person who sins breaks God’s law. Yes, sin is living against God’s law.