Romans 7:11 - Easy To Read Version Sin found a way to fool me by using the command. Sin used the command to make me die \{spiritually\}. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For sin, seizing the opportunity and getting a hold on me [by taking its incentive] from the commandment, beguiled and entrapped and cheated me, and using it [as a weapon], killed me. American Standard Version (1901) for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me. Common English Bible Sin seized the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and killed me. Catholic Public Domain Version For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me, and by it killed me. |
That man does not know what he is doing. He is confused, so his heart leads him the wrong way. That man can’t save himself. And he can’t see that he is doing wrong. That man will not say, “This statue I am holding is a false god.”
“A person’s mind is very tricky!\par The mind can be very sick,\par and no person truly understands it.\par
Edom, you scared other nations.\par So you thought you were important.\par But your pride has fooled you.\par You live in those caves, high on the cliff.\par Your home is high in the hills.\par But even if you build your home\par as high as an eagle’s nest,\par I will bring you down from there.”\par The Lord said these things.\par
Why? Because no person can be made right with God by following the law. The law only shows us our sin.
Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No! But sin used something that is good to bring death to me. This happened so that I could see what sin is really like. It happened to show that sin is something very, very bad. And the command was used to show this.
And sin found a way to use that command and make me want every kind of wrong thing. So sin came to me because of that command. But without the law, sin has no power.
You were taught to leave your old self. This means that you must stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self becomes worse and worse, because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do.
But encourage each other every day. Do this while it is “today. {\cf2\super [19]} ” Help each other so that none of you will become hardened because of sin and the way sin fools people.
Do what God’s teaching says; don’t just listen and do nothing. Why? Because when you only sit and listen, you are fooling yourselves.
You might think you are religious (good). But if you say things you should not say, then you are fooling yourself. Your “religion” is worth nothing.