Romans 7:8
But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
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- Rom 7:11 : 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.
- 1 Cor 15:56 : 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
- Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
- Rom 5:20 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
- John 15:22 : 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
- John 15:24 : 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.
- Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
- Rom 7:13 : 13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
- Rom 7:17 : 17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.
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9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
10 and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
15 For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want– instead, I do what I hate.
16 But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.
17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.
18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.
19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
21 So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.
22 For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.
23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
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5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.
6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”
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12 The Amplification of Justification So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned–
13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.
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1 The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
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20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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15 For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
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56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
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12 For all who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
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20 For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
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14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
15 The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
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4 Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.
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19 For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.
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11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
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7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)
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11 For he who said,“Do not commit adultery,” also said,“Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a violator of the law.
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5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
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1 The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?
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8 But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,
9 realizing that law is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,
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14 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things required by the law, these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.
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32 Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
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21 Is the law therefore opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
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23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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17 But if while seeking to be justified in Christ we ourselves have also been found to be sinners, is Christ then one who encourages sin? Absolutely not!