Romans 7:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment [to express itself], got a hold on me and aroused and stimulated all kinds of forbidden desires (lust, covetousness). For without the Law sin is dead [the sense of it is inactive and a lifeless thing].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.

Common English Bible

⁸ But sin seized the opportunity and used this commandment to produce all kinds of desires in me. Sin is dead without the Law.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Romans 7:8 Cross References

Mark 7:22

adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

Romans 3:20

For no human will be justified before him by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 5:20

But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Romans 7:13

Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin that was working death in me through what is good, in order that it might be shown to be sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.

Romans 7:17

But in fact it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me.

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.