New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Romans 7:8
Compare this verse across Bible translations. BLB includes New Testament text only (publisher draft).
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
BSB text & permissions
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
KJV text & permissions
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
WEB text & permissions
ASVAmerican Standard Version
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.
ASV text & permissions
But sin, having taken [the] opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all covetousness; for apart from [the] law, sin [is] dead.
BLB text & permissions
READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Romans 7
6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
7 What 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 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
10 So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
Read the full chapter →