TSK · Romans 7:5

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

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.”

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands–

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

But if you show prejudice, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as violators.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.