Romans 7:8
“But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.”
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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.
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Cross-References
“If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”
“For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.”
“The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.”
“Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.”
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”