“For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.”
— WEB
Romans 7:5
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“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.”
— KJV
“For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.”
— ASV
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Commentary
For when we were in the flesh--in our unregenerate state, as we came into the world. See on Joh 3:6 and Rom 8:5-9. the motions--"passions" (Margin), "affections" (as in Gal 5:24), or "stirrings." of sins--that is, "prompting to the commission of sins." which were by the law--by occasion of the law, which fretted, irritated our inward corruption by its prohibitions. See on Rom 7:7-9. did work in our members--the members of the body, as the instruments by which these inward stirrings find vent in action, and become facts of the life. See on Rom 6:6. to bring forth fruit unto death--death in the sense of Rom 6:21. Thus hopeless is all holy fruit before union to Christ.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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