Romans 7:8 · KJV
“But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin {was} dead.”
— Romans 7:8
What shall we say then? {Is} the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans 7 — Context
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not {in} the oldness of the letter. {that being...: or, being dead to that}
7What shall we say then? {Is} the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin {was} dead.
9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10And the commandment, which {was ordained} to life, I found {to be} unto death.
Cross References
Romans 7:11
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death {is} sin; and the strength of sin {is} the law.
Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, {there is} no transgression.
James 1:14-15
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Romans 7:13
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Romans 5:20
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. {cloke: or, excuse}
John 15:24
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.