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.

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

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

¹⁵ because ^(A)the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

¹⁴ But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. ¹⁵ Then, ^(A)when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, ^(B)brings forth death.

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.

²⁰ Moreover ^(A)the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace ^(B)abounded much more,

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

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

²⁴ If I had not done among them ^(A)the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have ^(B)seen and also hated both Me and My Father.