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Romans 7:8

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but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.

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Romans 7:8 in other translations

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7:8 · World English Bible

Romans 7:8 in context

  1. 6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
  2. 7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
  3. 8but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.
  4. 9And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
  5. 10and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death: