Catholic Public Domain Version
"But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. "
— Romans 7:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.”
“but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead. ”
“But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.”
“But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.”
“But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.”
“But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.”
“But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.”
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.
But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.
What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You shall not covet.”
But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,
and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.
For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.