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Romans 7:8-9 KJV
Romans · chapter 7 · verses 8–9
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.Romans 7:8-9 · King James Version
Romans 7:8-9 in context
6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
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Key words (Strong's)
- concupiscenceepithymiadesire, craving, longing, desire for what is forbidden, lustG1939 →
- commandmententolēan order, command, charge, precept, injunction, that which is prescribed to one by reason…G1785 →
- occasionaphormēa place from which a movement or attack is made, a base of operations, metaph. that by…G874 →
- wroughtkatergazomaito perform, accomplish, achieve, to work outG2716 →
- withoutchōrisseparate, apart, without any, besidesG5565 →
- revivedanazaōlive again, recover life, to be restored to a correct life, of one who returns to a…G326 →
- takinglambanōto take, to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it, to…G2983 →
- alivezaōto live, breathe, be among the living , to enjoy real life, to have true life and worthy…G2198 →
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To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? When he had been speaking of the dominion of sin, he had said so much of the influence of the law as a covenant upon that dominion that it might easily be…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-13