NET Bible
"For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death."
— Romans 7:5, NET Bible
“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.”
“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. ”
“For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.”
“For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.”
“For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.”
“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.”
For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.
So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”
But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.