Romans 7:5

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The power of sin used to control us. The law told us we couldn’t do certain things, but that only made us want to do them more. So our lives produced only death.

Cross References

Ephesians 2:3

At one time we all lived among those things. We followed our wrong desires and thoughts, and we tried to satisfy what they wanted us to do. God was angry with us, as he was with everyone else, because of the kind of people we all were.

Galatians 5:24

People who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed their wrong desires to his cross. They don’t want to follow them anymore.

Galatians 3:10

All who rely on obeying the law are under a curse. It is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

Romans 6:13

Don’t offer any part of yourself to serve sin and do what’s wrong. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life. Offer every part of yourself to God to do what’s right.

Romans 6:21

But did you gain any benefit from the things you did then? You’re ashamed of those things now. They lead to death!

1 John 3:4

Everyone who sins breaks the law. In fact, sin is breaking the law.

Colossians 3:5

So put to death anything that comes from your wrong desires: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

James 4:1

Why do you fight and argue among yourselves? Isn’t it because of your wrong desires that fight within you?

James 1:15

These desires have a child known as sin, and when sin grows up, it leads to death.

Titus 3:3

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived, and controlled by all kinds of wrong desires and pleasures. We were hostile and envious. Other people hated us, and we hated them.

Ephesians 2:11

Some of you are Gentiles, not Jews, by birth. You’re called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “circumcised.” But they’ve only been circumcised in their bodies by human hands.

Romans 7:23

But I recognize that there’s another law at work inside of me. It’s fighting the law of my mind and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that’s at work within me.

Romans 6:23

When you worked for sin, the pay you got from it was death. But now you’re working for God because you’ve gotten a gift: eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:19

I’m using an example from everyday human life to help you understand. You used to offer yourselves as slaves to dirty habits, and you did more and more things that were wrong. Now offer yourselves as slaves to the right way of living. Then you will become holy.

Romans 5:20

When the law was introduced, sin got worse, because now people were doing things that they knew were wrong. But when sin got worse, God poured out an even greater abundance of grace.

Romans 4:15

because the law brings God’s anger. But where there is no law, the law can’t be broken.

Romans 3:20

So no one can obey the law well enough to be considered right with God. Instead, the law makes us more aware of our sin.

Romans 1:26

So God let them be taken over by their shameful desires. Their women committed sexual acts that were not natural.

John 3:6

People give birth to people, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

Matthew 15:19

Out of a person’s heart come cruel thoughts, murder, adultery, other sexual sins, stealing, false testimony, and lies.

2 Corinthians 10:3

I do live in the world, but I don’t fight my battles the way the people of the world do.