Romans 7:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's. 8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead. 9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death; 10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law. 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good. 13 Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.
  • Rom 7:23 : 23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
  • Rom 8:8-9 : 8 So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God. 9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.
  • 1 Cor 15:56 : 56 The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
  • 2 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life. 7 For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time: 8 Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory? 9 For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
  • Gal 5:16-17 : 16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, 21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
  • Eph 2:11 : 11 For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
  • Jas 1:15 : 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
  • Jas 2:9-9 : 9 But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law. 10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.
  • Jas 4:1 : 1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
  • 1 John 3:4 : 4 Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
  • John 3:6 : 6 That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.
  • Rom 1:26 : 26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:
  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

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  • Rom 7:4
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    4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

  • Rom 7:6-11
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    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

    7What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

    9And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

    10And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

    11For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

  • Rom 7:13-14
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    13Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

    14For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Rom 8:2-8
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

    3For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

    4So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

    5For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

    6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

    7Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

    8So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

  • Rom 6:19-22
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    19I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

    20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

    21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

    22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • Rom 7:23-25
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    23But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

    24How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

    25I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • Gal 5:16-19
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    16But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

    17For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.

    18But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

    19Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

  • Rom 6:11-14
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    11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

  • Rom 7:17-18
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    17So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

    18For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

  • Gal 2:19
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    19For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Gal 5:24
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    24And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

  • Col 3:5
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    5Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

  • Rom 8:10
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    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

  • Eph 2:3
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    3Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

  • Rom 7:20-21
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    20But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

    21So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

  • Rom 5:13
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    13Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • Rom 4:15
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    15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.