SinaiRomans 7:7
American Standard Version
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
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Romans 7:7 in other translations
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
Romans 7:7 in context
- 5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
- 6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
- 7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
- 8but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.
- 9And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;