But sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
For “no human being will be justified in his sight” by deeds prescribed by the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
For the law brings wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there violation.
But law came in, with the result that the trespass multiplied; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, working death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.