Romans 7:7

New American Bible - revised edition

What then can we say? That the law is sin? Of course not! Yet I did not know sin except through the law, and I did not know what it is to covet except that the law said, “You shall not covet.”

Cross References

Genesis 3:6

The woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

2 Samuel 11:2

One evening David rose from his bed and strolled about on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof he saw a woman bathing; she was very beautiful.

Psalm 119:96

I have seen the limits of all perfection, but your commandment is without bounds.

Exodus 20:17

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Moses Accepted as Mediator.

Micah 2:2

You covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them; You cheat owners of their houses, people of their inheritance.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Luke 12:15

Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” Parable of the Rich Fool.

Luke 20:16

He will come and put those tenant farmers to death and turn over the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they exclaimed, “Let it not be so!”

Acts 20:33

I have never wanted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.

Romans 13:9

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, [namely] “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 3:20

since no human being will be justified in his sight by observing the law; for through the law comes consciousness of sin. Justification Apart from the Law.

Romans 3:5

But if our wickedness provides proof of God’s righteousness, what can we say? Is God unjust, humanly speaking, to inflict his wrath?

Romans 4:1

What then can we say that Abraham found, our ancestor according to the flesh?

Romans 4:15

For the law produces wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.

Romans 5:20

The law entered in so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,

Romans 6:15

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it put me to death.

Romans 7:13

Did the good, then, become death for me? Of course not! Sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, our sinful passions, awakened by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit for death.

Romans 7:8

But sin, finding an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetousness. Apart from the law sin is dead.

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

Ephesians 5:3

Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones,

Deuteronomy 5:21

You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not desire your neighbor’s house or field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Moses as Mediator.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly: immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and the greed that is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion as do the Gentiles who do not know God;

Hebrews 7:19

for the law brought nothing to perfection; on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

Joshua 7:21

Among the spoils, I saw a beautiful Babylonian mantle, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight; I coveted them and I took them. They are now hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”