Romans 7:8

But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

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In The King James Version

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

In Context

7What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You shall not covet.”

9Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,

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Cross References

John 15:22If I had not come and had not spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 4:15For the law works unto wrath. And where there is no law, there is no law-breaking.

Romans 7:11For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.

Romans 7:17But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me.

James 1:14Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away.

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 →

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