Romans 7:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Romans 7:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 7:11
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
James 1:14-15
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. …
Romans 7:13
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-13)

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? Isa. 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 misinterpreted as a reflection upon the law, to prevent which he shows from his own experie…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

7-8. What ... then? Is the law sin? God forbid!--“I have said that when we were in the flesh the law stirred our inward corruption, and was thus the occasion of deadly fruit: Is then the law to blame for this? Far from us be such a thought.” Nay--“On the contrary” (as in Ro 8:37; 1Co 12:22; Greek). I had not known sin but by the law--It is important to fix what is meant by “sin” here. It certainly…