¹¹ For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, ^(A)“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

⁸ But ^(A)sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For ^(B)apart from the law sin was dead.

¹³ but ^[a]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

²⁶ If anyone ^[a]among you thinks he is religious, and ^(A)does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless.

²² But ^(A)be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

Law Cannot Save from Sin

¹³ Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

²² that you ^(A)put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,