Romans 7:5

In our former life in the flesh, sinful passions stirred up by the law produced fruit leading to death. The law, though good, aroused sin in our unredeemed nature.

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• Eph 2:3among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.
• Gal 5:16–17But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
• Gal 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
• Rom 6:13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• Rom 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
• 1 Jn 3:4Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Rom 7:7–13What 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.”
• 1 Cor 15:56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
• Rom 7:23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
• Rom 6:19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
• Rom 3:20Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Rom 4:15For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
• Jas 4:1Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Rom 8:8–9Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.
• Eph 2:11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision”, (in the flesh, made by hands);
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 5:20The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
• 2 Cor 3:6–9who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Rom 1:26For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
• Jas 2:9–10But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
• Gal 5:19–21Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
• Jas 1:15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
• John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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