 | 1838 - 154 pages
...as we are." And Rom. vii. 5. St. Paul observes, " 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." We may now substitute the word passions for that of " flesh," in reading the epistle of St. Paul to... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Bible - 1838 - 442 pages
...glory. 248 LECTURE XXXIX. ROMANS, vii, 5, 6. " 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. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held : that we should serve... | |
 | David McClure, Native of Philadelphia - Education - 1838 - 454 pages
...it in the lusts thereof. Rom. vii. 5. 14. 18. — 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 we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. For I know that in me, (that... | |
 | Tertullian - Religion - 1951 - 232 pages
...may bring forth fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins which were caused by the law (did work) in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are loosed from the law, being dead to that in which we were bound, so that we should serve... | |
 | Alan Watts - Religion - 1971 - 292 pages
...opposite — evil and sin. "For when we were in the flesh (ie the world of fact), the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead dead continued only as shadows and memories.... | |
 | Clara M. Codd - Religion - 1988 - 132 pages
...curative is also evident in other sayings of his. "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. . . . What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law;.... | |
 | Julia Kristeva - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 236 pages
...("For the wages of sin is death," Romans 6:23; "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," Romans 7:5), which is what sin leads to. One of the most complex nodes of Christian or at least Pauline... | |
 | Miles J. Stanford - Religion - 1983 - 340 pages
...for sinners. ..." "For when we were in the flesh [Adam], the [sinful impulses], which were [aroused] by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death" (1 Tim. 1:9; Rom. 7:5). (2) The fleshly Adamic nature will have nothing to do with God, nor can God... | |
 | F. Leroy Forlines - Religion - 1987 - 404 pages
...the law contributes to a new life (w. 5, 6). 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. For when we were in the flesh (Greek sarx). Concerning this word, Harrison's observations are helpful:... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Religion - 1980 - 600 pages
...forth fruit unto death, but now unto God. Ver. 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." You see then the gain to be got from the former husband ! And he does not say when we were in the Law,... | |
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But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held ; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. 
