Romans 7:11
Good News Translation
Sin found its chance, and by means of the commandment it deceived me and killed me.

New Revised Standard Version
For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Contemporary English Version
Sin used this command to trick me, and because of it I died.

New American Bible
For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it put me to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.

sin.

Romans 7:8,13 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. . . .

deceived.

Isaiah 44:20 Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Jeremiah 49:16 Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay hold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

Obadiah 1:3 Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.

Ephesians 4:22 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

James 1:22,26 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. . . .

Context
God's Law is Holy
10And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me. 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me. 12Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and just and good.…
Cross References
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? And she answered: The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:8
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Romans 7:10
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