Romans 7:5

New English Translation

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

John 3:6

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 1:26

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

Romans 3:20

For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

Romans 5:20

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

Romans 6:13

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

Romans 6:19

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

Romans 6:21

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 6:23

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

Romans 7:23

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is 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 though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”

Galatians 5:24

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

Ephesians 2:11

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands –

Ephesians 2:3

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

Colossians 3:5

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

James 1:15

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

James 4:1

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

1 John 3:4

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.