But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law sin lies dead.
adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, 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 will be justified before him 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 transgression.
But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, 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 that was working death in me through what is good, in order that it might be shown to be sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.
But in fact it is no longer I who 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.