Romans 7:7

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What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: "You shall not covet."

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

And so the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and beautiful to the eyes, and delightful to consider. And she took from its fruit, and she ate. And she gave to her husband, who ate.

2 Samuel 11:2

While these things were taking place, David happened to arise from his bed after midday, and he walked upon the terrace of the king's house. And he saw, across from his terrace, a woman washing herself. And the woman was very beautiful.

Exodus 20:17

You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; neither shall you desire his wife, nor male servant, nor female servant, nor ox, nor donkey, nor anything that is his."

Micah 2:2

And they have desired fields and have taken them by violence, and they have stolen houses. And they have made false accusations against a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Luke 12:15

So he said to them: "Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person's life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses."

Luke 20:16

"He will come and destroy those settlers, and he will give the vineyard to others." And upon hearing this, they said to him, "Let it not be."

Acts 20:33

I have coveted neither silver and gold, nor apparel,

Romans 13:9

For example: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not speak false testimony. You shall not covet. And if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Romans 3:20

For in his presence no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. For knowledge of sin is through the law.

Romans 3:5

But if even our injustice points to the justice of God, what shall we say? Could God be unfair for inflicting wrath?

Romans 4:1

So then, what shall we say that Abraham had achieved, who is our father according to the flesh?

Romans 4:15

For the law works unto wrath. And where there is no law, there is no law-breaking.

Romans 5:20

Now the law entered in such a way that offenses would abound. But where offenses were abundant, grace was superabundant.

Romans 6:15

What is next? Should we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not be so!

Romans 7:11

For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.

Romans 7:13

Then was what is good made into death for me? Let it not be so! But rather sin, in order that it might be known as sin by what is good, wrought death in me; so that sin, through the commandment, might become sinful beyond measure.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

Romans 7:8

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

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

Ephesians 5:3

But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,

Deuteronomy 5:21

You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his house, nor his field, nor his man servant, nor his woman servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything out of all that is his.'

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

Hebrews 7:19

For the law led no one to perfection, yet truly it introduced a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Joshua 7:21

For I saw among the spoils a very fine scarlet cloak, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a gold bar of fifty shekels. And coveting these, I took and hid them in the ground near the middle of my tent, and I covered the silver with the soil that I had dug."