¹¹ Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.

¹³ Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”

“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”

⁸ But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.

¹³ You must warn each other every day, while it is still “today,” so that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God.

²⁶ If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

²² But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

¹³ But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.

²² throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.