Romans 7:5
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.
Cross-references
Romans 7:8-13 expands on how the law gave sin opportunity to produce covetous desires, directly detailing the sinful passions that bear fruit for death.
Romans 7:23 reveals the war within between the law of sin and the mind, directly showing the internal conflict that produces fruit for death.
Romans 7:7 explains the law's role in revealing sin, showing how it arouses the sinful passions described here.
Romans 8:9 contrasts being in the flesh with being in the Spirit, highlighting the transition from the death-producing flesh described here.
Romans 8:8 declares that those in the flesh cannot please God, directly confirming the fruit-for-death outcome of living in the flesh here.
In Romans 3:20, the law makes us conscious of sin—complementing how the law arouses sinful passions in Romans 7:5.
In Romans 4:15, the law brings wrath—parallel to the death-bearing fruit from sinful passions in Romans 7:5.
In Romans 5:20, the law was given to increase trespass—directly parallel to the law arousing sinful passions in Romans 7:5.
Romans 6:13 commands not to yield parts to sin, contrasting the fleshly state where sinful passions are at work.
Romans 6:21 asks what benefit came from things that result in death, directly echoing the fruit for death from living in the flesh.
Romans 8:13 reaffirms that living according to the flesh leads to death (as in Romans 7:5), but adds the Spirit's power to put to death the body's deeds.
Romans 8:6 contrasts the death from a fleshly mindset with life from the Spirit, echoing the death outcome of fleshly passions in Romans 7:5.
Romans 8:3 reveals God's solution to the law's weakness due to flesh (Romans 7:5) by sending Christ to fulfill the law's requirement.
Romans 6:19 recalls past slavery to impurity, paralleling the fruit-for-death state described in the flesh.
In Galatians 5:17, the internal war between flesh and Spirit is described—the very conflict arising from being in the flesh.
In Titus 3:3, the former enslavement to passions and pleasures echoes the condition of sinful passions producing death.
In Galatians 5:16, walking by the Spirit is the solution to the flesh's sinful passions—contrasting the old realm of death.
In Galatians 5:19-21, the acts of the flesh are enumerated — these are the sinful passions aroused by the law that lead to death here.
In Galatians 5:24, believers have crucified the flesh—the very flesh that in Romans 7:5 produced sinful passions and death.
In Ephesians 2:3, the same former state of living in the flesh and deserving wrath mirrors the condition in Romans 7:5.
In 2 Corinthians 3:6-9, the law is a ministry of death that condemns, echoing the law's role in producing fruit for death here.
In 1 Corinthians 15:56, the law is the power of sin, and sin's sting is death — directly tying the law to sin's deadly fruit.
In James 1:15, desire gives birth to sin, and sin to death — exactly the process of sinful passions bearing fruit for death described here.
In Galatians 3:10, relying on the law brings a curse, showing the law's condemning power that here arouses sinful passions leading to death.
In Matthew 15:19, evil thoughts from the heart are listed, paralleling the sinful passions at work in the flesh here, though without reference to the law.
James 4:1 traces fights to internal desires warring within, similar to sinful passions causing death here.
Colossians 3:5 commands putting to death earthly nature, directly opposing the sinful passions at work in the flesh.
John 3:6 distinguishes flesh from Spirit, reinforcing the fleshly nature that, in Romans 7:5, stirs sinful passions leading to death.
Mark 7:21 lists evils from within the heart, paralleling sinful passions at work, though focused on specific sins not law.