And through occasion taken, sin by the commandment hath wrought in me all covetousness; for without the law, sin was dead.
thefts, avarices, [or covetousness, or over-hard keeping of goods], wickednesses, guile, unchastity, evil eye, blasphemies, pride, folly.
If I had not come, and had not spoken to them, they should not have sin; but now they have none excusation [or not excusing] of their sin.
If I had not done the works in them, which none other man did, they should not have sin; but now both they have seen, and have hated me and my Father.
For of the works of the law each flesh shall not be justified before him; for by the law there is knowing of sin.
For the law worketh wrath; for where is no law, there is no trespass, neither is trespassing [or prevarication].
And the law entered, that guilt should be plenteous; but where guilt was plenteous, grace was more plenteous [or abounded].
For sin, through occasion taken by the commandment, deceived me, and by that it slew me.
Is then that thing that is good, made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it seem sin, through good thing wrought death to me, that me or that men sin over-manner through the commandment.
But now I work not it now, but the sin that dwelleth in me.
And I lived without the law sometime; but when the commandment was come [or had come], sin lived again. But I was dead,
But the prick of death is sin; and the virtue of sin is the law.