Romans 7:7

A Conservative Version

What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

Cross References

Romans 3:20

Because from works of law no flesh will be made right before him, for through law is knowledge of sin.

Exodus 20:17

Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.

Romans 4:15

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

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

Deuteronomy 5:21

Neither shall thou covet thy neighbor's wife. Neither shall thou desire thy neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is thy neighbor's.

Romans 13:9

For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not testify falsely, Thou shall not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is summarized in this saying, in, Thou shall love

Romans 7:8

But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

Romans 3:5

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous inflicting wrath? (I speak according to a man.)

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,

Romans 7:13

Has therefore what is good become death to me? May it not happen! Instead, it is sin, so that it might be revealed, sin working death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful to extreme.

Romans 7:11

For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.

Romans 6:15

What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!

Romans 4:1

What then will we say Abraham, our father according to flesh, to have found?

Acts 20:33

I coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Micah 2:2

And 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.

Psalm 119:96

I have seen an end of all perfection. Thy commandment is exceedingly broad.

2 Samuel 11:2

And it came to pass at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylon mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. And, behold, they are hid in the ground in the midst of my tent

Genesis 3:6

And 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 wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her, and h

Luke 20:16

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. And having heard it, they said, May it not happen!

Romans 5:20

And the law entered so that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace was more abundant,

Hebrews 7:19

(for the law made nothing fully perfect), and an introduction of a better hope, through which we approach God.