But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
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 which 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 works of the law, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,
For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.
Did that which 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.
So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within me.
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.