Romans 7:11
For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
In Context
10And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
12But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
Cross References
Isaiah 44:20As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
Jeremiah 49:16... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.
Romans 7:8But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
Ephesians 4:22That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
James 1:22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.
Matthew Henry on Romans 7:8-25
Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto… Read the whole commentary →