Romans 7:11
For sin, by the occasion it found through the commandment, deceived me, and thereby killed me.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
In Context
10And that commandment of life was found to me (to tend) unto death.
12The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Cross References
Romans 7:8And by this commandment sin found for itself an occasion, and completed in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Ephesians 4:22but that you put from you your former habitudes, the old man who is corrupt in deceitful lusts,
James 1:22BUT be doers of the word, and not hearers only, neither deceive 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 →