Romans 7:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

John 3:6

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Romans 1:26

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,

Romans 3:20

For no human being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

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

Romans 5:20

Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 6:13

Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 6:21

But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now 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 and making me captive to the law of sin which 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 though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war,

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.”

Galatians 5:24

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

Ephesians 2:11

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—

Ephesians 2:3

Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, 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, hated by men and hating one another;

James 1:15

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death.

James 4:1

What causes wars, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

1 John 3:4

Every one who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.