God’s Law Is Holy
Romans 7:11
In 9 translations
- 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.
- LSV
- for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew [me],
- YLT
- for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];
- DBY
- for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
- DRC
- For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me, and by it killed me.
- GNV
- For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἡ γὰρ ἁμαρτία ἀφορμὴν λαβοῦσα διὰ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἐξηπάτησέν με καὶ διʼ αὐτῆς ἀπέκτεινεν.
- RP2018
- ἡ γὰρ ἁμαρτία ἀφορμὴν λαβοῦσα διὰ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἐξηπάτησέν με, καὶ δι’ αὐτῆς ἀπέκτεινεν.
- TR-Boyd
- ἡ γὰρ ἁμαρτία ἀφορμὴν λαβοῦσα διὰ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἐξηπάτησέ με, καὶ δι᾿ αὐτῆς ἀπέκτεινεν.
- SCR1894
- η γαρ αμαρτια αφορμην λαβουσα δια της εντολης εξηπατησεν με και δι αυτης απεκτεινεν
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
SinGood and EvilCanon of the New TestamentBeguileSin (1)JustificationDepravity of ManGoodLaw in the New TestamentPauline Theology
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Genesis 3:13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
- Romans 7:8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
- Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
- Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- James 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
- Isaiah 44:20He 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?”
- Romans 7:13Did 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…
- James 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
- Jeremiah 49:16The 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…
- Obadiah 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
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