Romans 7:7

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Rom 3:20 : 20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 7:8 : 8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
  • Exod 20:17 : 17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."
  • Deut 5:21 : 21 "Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
  • Rom 4:15 : 15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
  • Rom 13:9 : 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
  • 1 Cor 15:56 : 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
  • Eph 5:3 : 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
  • 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
  • Rom 4:1 : 1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
  • Rom 7:11 : 11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
  • Rom 7:13 : 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
  • Josh 7:21 : 21 When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
  • 1 Kgs 21:1-4 : 1 It happened after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money." 3 Naboth said to Ahab, "May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!" 4 Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple. 8 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward. 12 Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
  • Ps 119:96 : 96 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM
  • Mic 2:2 : 2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
  • Acts 20:33 : 33 I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.

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

    9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

    10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

    11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

    12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

    13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

    14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

    15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

    16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.

    17 So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

    18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

    19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice.

    20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

    21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

    22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

    23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

    24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

    25 I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

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    14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

    6 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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    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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    13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

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    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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    21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

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    10 For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

    11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

    3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

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    12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

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    1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

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    19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

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    20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

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    9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

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    14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

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    27 Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

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    3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

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    7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

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    1 Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

  • 1 Cor 15:56
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    56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

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    12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

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    15 Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

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    23 You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?