Sin’s Advantage in the Law
Law Cannot Save from Sin
| << Romans 7:4 | Romans 7:6 >> |
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified® Bible
When we were living in the flesh (mere physical lives), the sinful passions that were awakened {and} aroused up by [what] the Law [makes sin] were constantly operating in our natural powers (in our bodily organs, in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh), so that we bore fruit for death.
Contemporary English Version
When we thought only of ourselves, the Law made us have sinful desires. It made every part of our bodies into slaves who are doomed to die.
Darby English Version
For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which [were] by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
Good News Bible
For when we lived according to our human nature, the sinful desires stirred up by the Law were at work in our bodies, and all we did ended in death.
International Standard Version
For while we were living in the flesh, sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies to bear fruit for death.
King James Version
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.
New American Standard Bible
For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were {aroused} by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
New International Version
For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.
New King James Version
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
For while we lived in the flesh, the sinful passions, which became aroused by the Law, went to work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
Young's Literal Translation
for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
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