Romans 7:8

New Century Version

And sin found a way to use that command and cause me to want all kinds of things I should not want. But without the law, sin has no power.

Cross References

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.

1 Corinthians 15:56

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

Romans 4:15

because the law can only bring God’s anger. But if there is no law, there is nothing to disobey.

Romans 7:13

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

Romans 5:20

The law came to make sin worse. But when sin grew worse, God’s grace increased.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Romans 7:17

But I am not really the one who is doing these hated things; it is sin living in me that does them.

John 15:24

I did works among them that no one else has ever done. If I had not done these works, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen what I have done, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

Mark 7:22

greed, evil actions, lying, doing sinful things, jealousy, speaking evil of others, pride, and foolish living.

Romans 3:20

because no one can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.

Romans 7:9

I was alive before I knew the law. But when the law’s command came to me, then sin began to live,