Roma 7:4-5

7:4 So, my brothers and sisters, ¹  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. ²  7:5 For when we were in the flesh, ³  the sinful desires, ⁴  aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body ⁵  to bear fruit for death.

[7:4]  ¹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[7:4]  ² tn Grk “that we might bear fruit to God.”

[7:5]  ³ tn That is, before we were in Christ.

[7:5]  ⁴ tn Or “sinful passions.”

[7:5]  ⁵ tn Grk “our members”; the words “of our body” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.