Romans 7:11 “For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me…”

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

World English Bible

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

American Standard Version

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

Geneva Bible 1599

For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.

Darby Translation

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

Young's Literal Translation

for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];

Bible in Basic English

For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

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Cross references

“sin”

Romans 7:8 Romans 7:13

Romans 7:8 · BSB

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 7:13 · BSB

Did 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 sinf…

“deceived”

Jeremiah 17:9 Hebrews 3:13 Isaiah 44:20 Jeremiah 49:16 James 1:22 James 1:26

Jeremiah 17:9 · BSB

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Hebrews 3:13 · BSB

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Isaiah 44:20 · BSB

He 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?”

Jeremiah 49:16 · BSB

The 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 you…

James 1:22 · BSB

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.

James 1:26 · BSB

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

Also

Genesis 3:13

Genesis 3:13 · BSB

Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

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