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.


In Context

2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

5 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.

6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, |You shall 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:5For 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.

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 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.