Romans 7:5-6 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 to death.… The term, denoting the soft parts of the body, which are the usual seat of agreeable or painful sensations, is applied in Biblical language to the whole natural man, in so far as he is yet under the dominion of the love of pleasure or the fear of pain, that is to say, of the tendency to self-satisfaction. The natural complacency of the ego with itself — such is the idea of the word in the moral sense in which it is so often used in Scripture. (Prof. Godet.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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