Romans 7:8
Good News Translation
But by means of that commandment sin found its chance to stir up all kinds of selfish desires in me. Apart from law, sin is a dead thing.

New Revised Standard Version
But sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.

Contemporary English Version
It was sin that used this command as a way of making me have all kinds of desires. But without the Law, sin is dead.

New American Bible
But sin, finding an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetousness. Apart from the law sin is dead.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

sin.

Romans 7:11,13,17 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me. . . .

Romans 4:15 For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 5:20 Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.

wrought.

James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured. . . .

For without, etc.

Romans 4:15 For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

John 15:22,24 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:56 Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

Context
God's Law is Holy
7What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,…
Cross References
Mark 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:9
And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Romans 7:11
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.

1 Corinthians 15:56
Now the sting of death is sin: and the power of sin is the law.

Romans 7:7
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