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For apart from the law, sin was dead. <a href="/nlt/romans/7.htm">New Living Translation</a> But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power. <a href="/esv/romans/7.htm">English Standard Version</a> But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. <a href="/bsb/romans/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. <a href="/blb/romans/7.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> But sin, having taken an occasion by the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; for apart from the Law, sin is dead. <a href="/kjv/romans/7.htm">King James Bible</a> But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. <a href="/nkjv/romans/7.htm">New King James Version</a> But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. <a href="/nasb_/romans/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> But sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. <a href="/nasb/romans/7.htm">NASB 1995</a> But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. <a href="/nasb77/romans/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a> But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. <a href="/lsb/romans/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the Law sin is dead. <a href="/amp/romans/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a> But sin, finding an opportunity through the commandment [to express itself] produced in me every kind of coveting and selfish desire. For without the Law sin is dead [the recognition of sin is inactive]. <a href="/csb/romans/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead. <a href="/hcsb/romans/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead. <a href="/asv/romans/7.htm">American Standard Version</a> but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead. <a href="/cev/romans/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> It was sin that used this command as a way of making me have all kinds of desires. But without the Law, sin is dead. <a href="/erv/romans/7.htm">English Revised Version</a> but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead. <a href="/gwt/romans/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> But sin took the opportunity provided by this commandment and made me have all kinds of wrong desires. Clearly, without laws sin is dead. <a href="/gnt/romans/7.htm">Good News Translation</a> But by means of that commandment sin found its chance to stir up all kinds of selfish desires in me. Apart from law, sin is a dead thing. <a href="/isv/romans/7.htm">International Standard Version</a> But sin seized the opportunity provided by this commandment and produced in me all kinds of sinful desires, since apart from the Law, sin is dead. <a href="/msb/romans/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead. <a href="/net/romans/7.htm">NET Bible</a> But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead. <a href="/nheb/romans/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead. <a href="/wbt/romans/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. <a href="/wey/romans/7.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead. <a href="/web/romans/7.htm">World English Bible</a> But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/romans/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> “You will not covet”; and sin having received an opportunity, through the command, worked in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead. <a href="/blb/romans/7.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> But sin, having taken an occasion by the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; for apart from the Law, sin is dead. <a href="/ylt/romans/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead. <a href="/slt/romans/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And sin, having taken occasion by the command, wrought in me every lust. For without law sin dead.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/romans/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. <a href="/cpdv/romans/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. <a href="/nabre/romans/7.htm">New American Bible</a> But sin, finding an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetousness. Apart from the law sin is dead. <a href="/nrsvce/romans/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> But sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/romans/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> So by means of this commandment, sin found an occasion and provoked in me every kind of lust. For without the law sin was dead. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/romans/7.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> In this commandment sin found for itself an occasion and developed in me every lust, for without The Written Law, sin was dead.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/romans/7.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, rendered active within me every evil desire. For without the law, sin was dead. <a href="/godbey/romans/7.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, did work in me all concupiscence; for without law sin was dead. <a href="/haweis/romans/7.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> But sin, seizing the opportunity by the law, wrought in me all concupiscence. For without the law sin is dead. <a href="/mace/romans/7.htm">Mace New Testament</a> but sin receiving strength by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence, for before the law sin appear'd dead. <a href="/wey/romans/7.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> Sin took advantage of this, and by means of the Commandment stirred up within me every kind of coveting; for apart from Law sin would be dead. <a href="/worrell/romans/7.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> but sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting; for apart from law sin is dead. <a href="/worsley/romans/7.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> But sin taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the law sin was dead. <a href="/parallel/romans/7-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KIZs4GUMn-g?start=1623" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/romans/7.htm">God's Law is Holy</a> 7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” 8<a href="/greek/1161.htm" title="1161: de (Conj) -- A primary particle; but, and, etc.">But</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: hē (Art-NFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/266.htm" title="266: hamartia (N-NFS) -- From hamartano; a sin.">sin,</a> <a href="/greek/2983.htm" title="2983: labousa (V-APA-NFS) -- (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of. ">seizing</a> <a href="/greek/874.htm" title="874: aphormēn (N-AFS) -- From a compound of apo and hormao; a starting-point, i.e. an opportunity.">its opportunity</a> <a href="/greek/1223.htm" title="1223: dia (Prep) -- A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.">through</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēs (Art-GFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/1785.htm" title="1785: entolēs (N-GFS) -- An ordinance, injunction, command, law. From entellomai; injunction, i.e. An authoritative prescription.">commandment,</a> <a href="/greek/2716.htm" title="2716: kateirgasato (V-AIM-3S) -- From kata and ergazomai; to work fully, i.e. Accomplish; by implication, to finish, fashion.">produced</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: emoi (PPro-D1S) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.">me</a> <a href="/greek/3956.htm" title="3956: pasan (Adj-AFS) -- All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.">every kind</a> <a href="/greek/1939.htm" title="1939: epithymian (N-AFS) -- Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.">of covetous desire.</a> <a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/5565.htm" title="5565: chōris (Prep) -- Apart from, separately from; without. Adverb from chora; at a space, i.e. Separately or apart from.">apart from</a> <a href="/greek/3551.htm" title="3551: nomou (N-GMS) -- From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.">the law,</a> <a href="/greek/266.htm" title="266: hamartia (N-NFS) -- From hamartano; a sin.">sin</a> <a href="/greek/3498.htm" title="3498: nekra (Adj-NFS) -- (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead.">is dead.</a> 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/genesis/3-6.htm">Genesis 3:6</a> When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. <a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14-15</a> But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. / Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. <a href="/1_corinthians/15-56.htm">1 Corinthians 15:56</a> The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. <a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a> The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. <a href="/1_john/2-16.htm">1 John 2:16</a> For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. <a href="/matthew/15-19.htm">Matthew 15:19</a> For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. <a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Ephesians 2:3</a> All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath. <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a> Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. <a href="/1_timothy/6-9.htm">1 Timothy 6:9-10</a> Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. / For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows. <a href="/mark/7-21.htm">Mark 7:21-23</a> For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, / greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. / All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.” <a href="/proverbs/6-16.htm">Proverbs 6:16-19</a> There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him: / haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, / a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, ... <a href="/jeremiah/17-9.htm">Jeremiah 17:9</a> The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? <a href="/exodus/20-17.htm">Exodus 20:17</a> You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” <a href="/deuteronomy/5-21.htm">Deuteronomy 5:21</a> You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” <a href="/psalms/51-5.htm">Psalm 51:5</a> Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, worked in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.sin.<a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Romans 7:11,13,17</a> For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me… <a href="/romans/4-15.htm">Romans 4:15</a> Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.<a href="/romans/5-20.htm">Romans 5:20</a> Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:wrought.<a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14,15</a> But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed… For without, etc.<a href="/romans/4-15.htm">Romans 4:15</a> Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.<a href="/john/15-22.htm">John 15:22,24</a> If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin… <a href="/1_corinthians/15-56.htm">1 Corinthians 15:56</a> The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/romans/3-1.htm">Advantage</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Afforded</a> <a href="/romans/4-6.htm">Apart</a> <a href="/acts/24-9.htm">Attack</a> <a href="/acts/27-12.htm">Chance</a> <a href="/acts/25-23.htm">Commandment</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">Concupiscence</a> <a href="/romans/7-7.htm">Covet</a> <a href="/romans/7-7.htm">Coveting</a> <a href="/luke/16-14.htm">Covetous</a> <a href="/romans/7-7.htm">Covetousness</a> <a href="/romans/7-6.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/romans/7-7.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/acts/26-14.htm">Finding</a> <a href="/romans/6-17.htm">Form</a> <a href="/acts/28-9.htm">Getting</a> <a href="/romans/3-27.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/acts/13-10.htm">Kinds</a> <a href="/romans/7-7.htm">Law</a> <a href="/romans/6-19.htm">Manner</a> <a href="/romans/7-7.htm">Means</a> <a href="/acts/11-19.htm">Occasion</a> <a href="/acts/25-16.htm">Opportunity</a> <a href="/acts/25-21.htm">Ordered</a> <a href="/romans/3-2.htm">Point</a> <a href="/acts/6-13.htm">Produced</a> <a href="/acts/3-7.htm">Seizing</a> <a href="/romans/7-7.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/acts/21-38.htm">Stirred</a> <a href="/romans/1-19.htm">Within</a> <a href="/romans/7-5.htm">Working</a> <a href="/romans/7-5.htm">Wrought</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Advantage</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Afforded</a> <a href="/romans/7-9.htm">Apart</a> <a href="/2_timothy/4-18.htm">Attack</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Chance</a> <a href="/romans/7-9.htm">Commandment</a> <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Concupiscence</a> <a href="/romans/13-9.htm">Covet</a> <a href="/mark/7-22.htm">Coveting</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/5-10.htm">Covetous</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/9-5.htm">Covetousness</a> <a href="/romans/8-10.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/romans/7-15.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Finding</a> <a href="/romans/12-5.htm">Form</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Getting</a> <a href="/romans/10-12.htm">Kind</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/6-13.htm">Kinds</a> <a href="/romans/7-9.htm">Law</a> <a href="/romans/16-2.htm">Manner</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Means</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Occasion</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Opportunity</a> <a href="/romans/8-4.htm">Ordered</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Point</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/1-6.htm">Produced</a> <a href="/romans/7-11.htm">Seizing</a> <a href="/romans/7-9.htm">Sin</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/9-2.htm">Stirred</a> <a href="/romans/7-17.htm">Within</a> <a href="/romans/7-13.htm">Working</a> <a href="/romans/15-18.htm">Wrought</a><div class="vheading2">Romans 7</div>1. <a href="/romans/7-1.htm">No law has power over a man longer than he lives.</a> 4. <a href="/romans/7-4.htm">But we are dead to the law.</a> 7. <a href="/romans/7-7.htm">Yet is not the law sin;</a> 12. <a href="/romans/7-12.htm">but holy, just and good;</a> 16. <a href="/romans/7-16.htm">as I acknowledge, who am grieved because I cannot keep it.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The commandment, intended to guide and protect, becomes a tool for sin to incite rebellion. This reflects the human tendency to resist restrictions, a theme seen in <a href="/genesis/3.htm">Genesis 3</a> with the fall of Adam and Eve, where the command not to eat from the tree became the focal point of temptation. Theologically, this underscores the idea that the law, while holy, cannot save but rather reveals sin (<a href="/romans/3-20.htm">Romans 3:20</a>).produced in me every kind of covetous desire Here, Paul personalizes the struggle with sin, indicating that the law's prohibition against coveting (<a href="/exodus/20-17.htm">Exodus 20:17</a>) actually stirred up covetous desires within him. This illustrates the paradox of the law: it defines sin but also incites it. The term "covetous desire" can be linked to the broader concept of idolatry, where desires replace God as the object of worship (<a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a>). This internal battle is a common human experience, reflecting the universal nature of sin.For apart from the law, sin is dead This statement suggests that without the law, sin lacks the power to provoke or condemn. The law brings awareness of sin, as seen in <a href="/romans/5-13.htm">Romans 5:13</a>, where sin is not counted where there is no law. Historically, this can be connected to the period before the Mosaic Law, where sin existed but was not imputed in the same way. Theologically, this points to the necessity of the law to reveal the need for a Savior, as without the law, the full extent of sin's power and presence remains hidden.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/paul_the_apostle.htm">Paul the Apostle</a> The author of the Book of Romans, Paul is addressing the believers in Rome, explaining the relationship between the law and sin. 2. <a href="/topical/s/sin.htm">Sin</a> Personified in this passage as an active force that exploits the law to produce sinful desires. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_law.htm">The Law</a> Refers to the Mosaic Law, which was given to the Israelites and is central to understanding sin and righteousness. 4. <a href="/topical/c/covetous_desire.htm">Covetous Desire</a> Represents the sinful inclinations that arise when the law highlights what is forbidden. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_commandment.htm">The Commandment</a> Specific laws within the Mosaic Law that reveal sin by defining what is sinful.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_law.htm">The Role of the Law</a> The law is not sinful; rather, it reveals sin. Understanding this helps us see the law's purpose in God's plan. <a href="/topical/s/sin's_deceptive_nature.htm">Sin's Deceptive Nature</a> Sin uses the law to deceive and provoke us into rebellion. Recognizing this can help us guard against sin's tactics. <a href="/topical/t/the_need_for_a_savior.htm">The Need for a Savior</a> The law shows us our sinfulness and our need for Jesus Christ, who fulfills the law and offers grace. <a href="/topical/l/living_by_the_spirit.htm">Living by the Spirit</a> As believers, we are called to live by the Spirit, which empowers us to overcome the sinful desires that the law reveals. <a href="/topical/s/self-examination.htm">Self-Examination</a> Regularly examine your heart and motives in light of God's Word to identify areas where sin may be taking advantage of the law.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_romans_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Romans 7</a> <a href="/q/what_is_'jesus_as_second_adam'.htm">What does 'Jesus as the Second Adam' mean?</a> <a href="/q/what_are_a_believer's_two_natures.htm">What are the two natures of a believer?</a> <a href="/q/why_does_sin_struggle_persist_in_romans_7_25.htm">In Romans 7:25, if Christ is the solution to sin, why does the struggle described still persist according to the text and other New Testament passages?</a> <a href="/q/does_psalm_7_8_contradict_romans_3_10.htm">If Psalm 7:8 claims personal righteousness, does this contradict the broader biblical teaching of universal sinfulness (e.g., Romans 3:10)?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/romans/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) Taking occasion.--The word in the Greek implies originally a military metaphor: taking as a "base of operations," i.e., an advanced post occupied as the starting-point and rendezvous for further advances. Sin is unable to. act upon man without the co-operation of law, without being able to hold up law before him, and so show itself in its true colours.The words "by the commandment" may either go with "taking occasion" or with "wrought in me." The sense would, in either case, be very much the same, "taking advantage of the commandment," or "wrought in me by the help of the commandment." The first is the construction usually adopted, as in the Authorised version, but there seem to be reasons of some force for preferring the second. The phrase "wrought in me coveting by the commandment" would thus be parallel to "working death in me by that which is good," below.Concupiscence.--Rather, coveting; the same word which had been used above. Sin and the Commandment together--Sin, the evil principle in men, acting as the primary cause, and the Commandment as the secondary cause--led their unfortunate victim into all kinds of violation of the Law. This is done in two ways: (1) the perverseness of human nature is such that the mere prohibition of an act suggests the desire to do that which is prohibited; (2) the act, when done, is invested with the character of sin, which hitherto it did not possess. It becomes a distinct breach of law, where previously there had been no law to break. This is what the Apostle means by saying that "without the Law sin was dead." Until there was a written prohibition, Sin (the evil principle) was powerless to produce sinful actions.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/romans/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 8. - But sin, taking occasion, through the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence (or, of lust): for without (or, apart from) law sin is dead. Here, as in <a href="/romans/5-12.htm">Romans 5:12</a>, seq., sin is personified as a power, antagonistic to the Law of God, that has been introduced into the world of man, causing death. In ch. 5. its first introduction was found in the scriptural account of Adam's transgression. It has ever since been in the world, as is evidenced by the continuance of the reign of death as it comes to all men now (vers. 13, 14). But it is only when men, through law, know it to be sin, that it is imputed (ver. 13), and so slays them spiritually. Apart from law, it is as it were dead with respect to its power over the soul to kill. It is regarded here as an enemy on the watch, seizing its occasion to kill which is offered it when law comes in. It may be observed here that, though it is not easy to define exactly in all cases what St. Paul means by death, it is evident that he means in this place more than the physical death which seemed, at first sight at least, to be exclusively referred to in ch. 5. For all die in the latter sense of the word; but only those who sin with knowledge of law in the sense intended here (see also note on Romans 5:12). It is supposed by most commentators that the expression κατειργάσατο in this verse means, not only that "the commandment" brought out lust as sin, but further that it provoked it, according to the alleged tendency of human nature to long all the more for what is forbidden; Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata. Whether or not we have this tendency to the extent sometimes supposed, the context certainly neither requires nor suggests the conception, either here or in vers. 5 and 7. It is true, however, that the language of vers. 5 and 8 does in itself suggest it. Against it is the reason which follows; "for without law sin is dead," which can hardly mean (as the strong word νεκρά would seem in such case to require) that lust itself is altogether dormant until prohibition excites it. Calvin interprets κατειργάσατο thus: "Detexit in me omnem concupiscentiam; quae, dum lateret, quo-dammodo nulla esse videbatur;" and on ἁμαρτια νεκρά remarks, "Clarissime exprimit quem sensum habeant superiora. Perinde enim est ac si diceret, sepnltam esse sine Legs peccati notitiam." <a href="/commentaries/romans/7-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>But δὲ (de) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1161.htm">Strong's 1161: </a> A primary particle; but, and, etc. sin, ἁμαρτία (hamartia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_266.htm">Strong's 266: </a> From hamartano; a sin. seizing λαβοῦσα (labousa) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2983.htm">Strong's 2983: </a> (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of. [its] opportunity ἀφορμὴν (aphormēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_874.htm">Strong's 874: </a> From a compound of apo and hormao; a starting-point, i.e. an opportunity. through διὰ (dia) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1223.htm">Strong's 1223: </a> A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through. the τῆς (tēs) Article - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. commandment, ἐντολῆς (entolēs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1785.htm">Strong's 1785: </a> An ordinance, injunction, command, law. From entellomai; injunction, i.e. An authoritative prescription. produced κατειργάσατο (kateirgasato) Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2716.htm">Strong's 2716: </a> From kata and ergazomai; to work fully, i.e. Accomplish; by implication, to finish, fashion. in ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. me ἐμοὶ (emoi) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. every kind πᾶσαν (pasan) Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3956.htm">Strong's 3956: </a> All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. of covetous desire. ἐπιθυμίαν (epithymian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1939.htm">Strong's 1939: </a> Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing. For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. apart from χωρὶς (chōris) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_5565.htm">Strong's 5565: </a> Apart from, separately from; without. Adverb from chora; at a space, i.e. Separately or apart from. [the] Law, νόμου (nomou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3551.htm">Strong's 3551: </a> From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively. sin ἁμαρτία (hamartia) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_266.htm">Strong's 266: </a> From hamartano; a sin. [is] dead. νεκρά (nekra) Adjective - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3498.htm">Strong's 3498: </a> (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse. From an apparently primary nekus; dead. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/romans/7-8.htm">Romans 7:8 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/romans/7-8.htm">NT Letters: Romans 7:8 But sin finding occasion through the commandment (Rom. 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