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Romans 7:8
Romans 7:8 is verse 8 of Romans chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
King James Version
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
World English Bible
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
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Romans 7:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
10 So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Romans 7:11For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
Romans 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
Romans 7:17In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
Romans 4:15because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
James 1:14But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
James 1:15Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
John 15:24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.
1 Corinthians 15:56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.