Cross references
Romans 7:5
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
Romans 7:5 has 27 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ephesians 2:3 (14 votes) and Galatians 5:16–17 (9 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Matthew 6 to 1 John 3.
Which verses does Romans 7:5 point to?
The 20 strongest of 27, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Ephesians 2:314 votes
All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- Galatians 5:16–179 votes
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
- Galatians 5:249 votes
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- Galatians 3:107 votes
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- Romans 6:135 votes
Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
- Romans 6:215 votes
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
- Romans 7:7–134 votes
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. …
- 1 Corinthians 15:564 votes
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- Colossians 3:54 votes
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 1 John 3:44 votes
Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
- Romans 3:203 votes
Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
- Romans 4:153 votes
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
- Romans 5:203 votes
The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- Romans 6:193 votes
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
- Romans 6:233 votes
- Romans 7:233 votes
But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
- Romans 8:8–93 votes
- Ephesians 2:113 votes
- Titus 3:33 votes
- James 4:13 votes
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Which verses point to Romans 7:5?
The 10 strongest of 22.