⁸ But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law sin lies dead.^(A)

⁵⁶ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.^(A)

¹¹ For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

¹⁵ For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.^(A)

¹⁴ But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; ¹⁵ then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.^(A)

¹⁷ But in fact it is no longer I who do it but sin that dwells within me.

¹³ Did what is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin that was working death in me through what is good, in order that it might be shown to be sin, so that through the commandment sin might become sinful beyond measure.

²⁰ But law came in, so that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,^(A)

²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.^(A)

²⁴ If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.^(A)