Romans 7:11
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.
For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
- KJV
- For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
- WEB
- for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
- ASV
- for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
- DARBY
- for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
- BLB
- For sin, having taken the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].
- ÅB
- for synden tok anledning av budet og narret meg og brukte det til å drepe meg.
- OTB
- For synden, som tok anledningen gitt av budet, bedraget meg, og gjennom det, drepte meg.
- B1930
- for synden tok anledning av budet og dåret og drepte mig ved det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 3:13
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
Read in contextRomans 7:8
But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Read in contextHebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
Read in contextJames 1:26
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
Read in contextJeremiah 49:16
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
Read in contextJames 1:22
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
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