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 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.
• Gal 5:24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
• Gal 5:16–17This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
• Gal 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
• Rom 6:13Neither 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.
• Rom 6:21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
• 1 Jn 3:4Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
• Col 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Rom 7:7–13What 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.
• 1 Cor 15:56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
• Rom 7:23But 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.
• Rom 6:19I 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.
• Rom 3:20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Rom 4:15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
• Jas 4:1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Rom 8:8–9So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• Eph 2:11Wherefore 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;
• Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 5:20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
• 2 Cor 3:6–9Who 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.
• Rom 1:26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
• Jas 2:9–10But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Gal 5:19–21Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Jas 1:15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
• John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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