Romans 7:7-14

The Law and Sin

⁷ What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, _o I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if _p the law had not said, "You shall not covet." 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. ¹² So _v the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

¹³ Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, _w sold under sin.

1. Cross References
   Romans 3:20
   For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
   
2. Cross References
   Romans 13:9
   For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
   Exodus 20:17
   "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
   Deuteronomy 5:21
   "'And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
   
3. Cross References
   Exodus 20:17
   "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
   Deuteronomy 5:21
   "'And you shall not covet your neighbor's wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'
   
4. 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.
   
5. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 15:56
   The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
   
6. 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.
   
7. 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.
   
8. 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.
   
9. Cross References
   Psalms 19:8 - 9
   The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
   Psalms 119:137
   Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your rules.
   2 Peter 2:21
   For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
   Romans 7:16
   Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
   
10. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:20
    Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.
    1 Kings 21:25
    ( There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.
    2 Kings 17:17
    And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
    Isaiah 50:1
    Thus says the Lord : "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
    Isaiah 52:3
    For thus says the Lord : "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.