5For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.


In Context

2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

3 So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.

4 So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

5 For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.

6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Romans 7:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5For 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:5For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5For 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;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5For 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:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5for 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5For 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.