Romans 7:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Cross References

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, 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. Their females exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural,

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 5:20

But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 6:13

No longer present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 6:19

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

Romans 6:21

So what fruit did you then gain from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.

Romans 6:23

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

Romans 7:23

but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making 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

Indeed, we live as humans but do not wage war according to human standards,

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.”

Galatians 5:24

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

Ephesians 2:11

So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands—

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

James 1:15

then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.

James 4:1

Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?

1 John 3:4

Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.