Romans 7:11
For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
In Context
10So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
Cross References
Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
Jeremiah 49:16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Romans 7:8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
James 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
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 →