Romans 7:8-11

The Law and Sin

⁸ But sin, _q seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. _r For apart from the law, sin lies dead. ⁹ I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. ¹⁰ The very commandment _s that promised life proved to be death to me. ¹¹ For sin, _t seizing an opportunity through the commandment, _u deceived me and through it killed me.

1. Cross References
   Romans 7:11
   For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
   Galatians 5:13
   For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 15:56
   The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
   
3. Cross References
   Romans 10:5
   For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
   
4. Cross References
   Romans 7:8
   But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
   
5. Cross References
   Genesis 3:13
   Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
   Hebrews 3:13
   But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.