Romans 7:8
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- sin
- Romans 7:11, 13, 17; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20
- wrought
- James 1:14, 15
- Romans 7:8
- For without, etc. Rather, "For without a law sin is dead." Where there is no law, there is no transgression; for sin is the transgression of the law: the very essence of sin consists in the violation of some positive law.
- Romans 4:15; John 15:22, 24; 1 Corinthians 15:56