The King James Version Bible

Romans 7:5

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.

Cross References

  1. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
  2. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
  3. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  4. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  5. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
  6. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
  7. Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
  8. Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  9. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
  10. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  11. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
  12. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
  13. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
  14. The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
  15. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
  16. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  17. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
  18. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  19. For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  20. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
  21. But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
  22. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
  23. Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.