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.

Cross-references · 27

• Eph 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Gal 5:16–17So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
• Gal 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
• Rom 6:13Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
• Rom 6:21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
• 1 Jn 3:4Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
• Col 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Rom 7:7–13What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
• 1 Cor 15:56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
• Rom 7:23But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
• Rom 6:19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
• Rom 3:20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Rom 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
• Jas 4:1What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Rom 8:8–9Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.
• Eph 2:11Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
• 2 Cor 3:6–9And He has qualified us as ministers 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 over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
• Jas 2:9–10But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Gal 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• Jas 1:15Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
• John 3:6Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.

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