Romans 7:8

Easy To Read Version

And sin found a way to use that command and make me want every kind of wrong thing. So sin came to me because of that command. But without the law, sin has no power.

Cross References

Mark 7:22

adultery, {\cf2\super [88]} greed, doing bad things to people, lying, doing things that are morally wrong, jealousy, saying bad things about people, proud boasting, and foolish living.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to the people of the world, then they would not be guilty of sin. But now I have spoken to them. So they have no excuse for their sin.

John 15:24

I did things among those people that no other person has ever done. If I had not done those things, they would not be guilty of sin. But they have seen those things I did. And still they hate me and my Father.

Romans 3:20

Why? Because no person can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Romans 4:15

Why? Because the law can only bring God’s anger \{when the law is not obeyed\}. But if there is no law, then there is nothing to disobey.

Romans 5:20

The law came to make people have more sin. But when people had more sin, God gave them more of his grace (kindness).

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command. Sin used the command to make me die \{spiritually\}.

Romans 7:13

Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! But sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like. It happened to show that sin is something very, very bad. And the command was used to show this.

Romans 7:17

But I am not really the one doing these \{bad\} things. It is sin living in me that does these things.

Romans 7:9

I was alive without the law before I knew the law. But when the law’s command came to me, then sin began to live.

1 Corinthians 15:56

Death’s power to hurt is sin. And the power of sin is the law.