Romans 7:5
New Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
πάθημα
páthēma
something undergone, i.e. hardship or pain; subjectively, an emotion or influence
חַטָּאָה
chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
תּוֹרָה
tôwrâh
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
פְּרִי
pᵉrîy
fruit (literally or figuratively)
מָוֶת
mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Key Terms in This Verse
πάθημα páthēma
something undergone, i.e. hardship or pain; subjectively, an emotion or influence
Study G3804 →חַטָּאָה chaṭṭâʼâh
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
Study H2403 →מָוֶת mâveth
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
Study H4194 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →מַעֲשֶׂה maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
Study H4639 →יָצָא yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Study H3318 →Cross References
Among 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.
And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
For 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.
Neither 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 Go...
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
But 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.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Wherefore 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;
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
I 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 servan...
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
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