Romans 7:5 Parallel Translations

While we were living under the influence of our corrupt nature, sinful passions were at work throughout our bodies. Stirred up by Moses' laws, our sinful passions did things that result in death.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

ASV:

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

BBE:

For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

DBY:

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

ERV:

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

WEY:

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

WBS:

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death:

WEB:

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

YLT:

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that are through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

Romans 7:5 Cross References

XREF:

Romans 6:13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 6:21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."

Romans 8:8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

7:5 {3} For when we {e} were in the flesh, the {f} motions of sins, which were by the {g} law, did {h} work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
(3) A declaration of the former saying: for he says that the fleshly desires which the law stirred up in us were in us as if they were a husband, from whom we brought forth very deadly and cursed children: but now that husband is dead, and so consequently, being delivered from the force of that killing law, we have passed into the control of the Spirit, so that we bring forth now, not those rotten and dead children, but rather living children.
(e) When we were in the state of the first marriage, which he calls in the following verse the oldness of the letter.
(f) The motions that urged us to sin, which show their force even in our minds.
(g) He does not say of the law but by the law, because they spring from sin which dwells within us, and take occasion to work in us in this way, by reason of the restraint that the law makes, not that the fault is in the law, but in ourselves. {h} Worked by their strength.

PNT:

7:5 For when we were in the flesh. When we were in an unconverted condition, under the influence of our carnal nature. The insufficiency of law to deliver us from its power is now shown.
Which were by the law. How the law set in motion these sinful passions is set forth in Ro 7:7,8. See notes on them.
Did work in our members. Seized the control of our bodily organs, and thus made us so sin as to be subject to the penalty of death. See Ro 6:21 Jas 1:15.

WES:

7:5 When ye were in the flesh - Carnally minded, in a state of nature; before we believed in Christ. Our sins which were by the law - Accidentally occasioned, or irritated thereby. Wrought in our members - Spread themselves all over the whole man.

MHC:

7:1-6 So long as a man continues under the law as a covenant, and seeks justification by his own obedience, he continues the slave of sin in some form. Nothing but the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, can make any sinner free from the law of sin and death. Believers are delivered from that power of the law, which condemns for the sins committed by them. And they are delivered from that power of the law which stirs up and provokes the sin that dwells in them. Understand this not of the law as a rule, but as a covenant of works. In profession and privilege, we are under a covenant of grace, and not under a covenant of works; under the gospel of Christ, not under the law of Moses. The difference is spoken of under the similitude or figure of being married to a new husband. The second marriage is to Christ. By death we are freed from obligation to the law as a covenant, as the wife is from her vows to her husband. In our believing powerfully and effectually, we are dead to the law, and have no more to do with it than the dead servant, who is freed from his master, has to do with his master's yoke. The day of our believing, is the day of being united to the Lord Jesus. We enter upon a life of dependence on him, and duty to him. Good works are from union with Christ; as the fruitfulness of the vine is the product of its being united to its roots; there is no fruit to God, till we are united to Christ. The law, and the greatest efforts of one under the law, still in the flesh, under the power of corrupt principles, cannot set the heart right with regard to the love of God, overcome worldly lusts, or give truth and sincerity in the inward parts, or any thing that comes by the special sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit. Nothing more than a formal obedience to the outward letter of any precept, can be performed by us, without the renewing, new-creating grace of the new covenant.

CONC:

Action Always Aroused Bear Bodies Bodily Body Bore Bring Death Earthly Evil Faculties Flesh Forth Fruit Law Members Motions Nature Natures Passions Sinful Sins Thraldom Whilst Worked Working Wrought Yield

Action Always Aroused Bear Bodies Bodily Body Bore Controlled Death Earthly Evil Faculties Flesh Forth Fruit Law Members Motions Nature Natures Passions Sinful Sins Thraldom Whilst Work Worked Working Wrought Yield

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