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 7:8 in context
Romans 7:5–11
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For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.
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But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
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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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I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
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The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
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for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
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