Romans 7:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. 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

coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.

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 which 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 being will be justified in his sight by works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

Romans 5:20

Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 7:11

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

Romans 7:13

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

Romans 7:17

So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.

Romans 7:9

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

1 Corinthians 15:56

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