But sin, finding occasion through the mitzvah, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
for sin, finding occasion through the mitzvah, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the mitzvah sin might become exceeding sinful.
So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the mitzvah came, sin revived, and I died.
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.