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Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

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ASV

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

KJV

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

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ἁμαρτίαhamartiasinG266 →
ἀφορμὴνaphormēnan occasionG874 →
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ἐντολῆςentolēscommandmentG1785 →
ἐξηπάτησένexēpatēsendeceivedG1818 →
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δι᾽di᾽throughG1223 →
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ἀπέκτεινεν·apekteinenput [me] to death;G615 →

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Romans 8:6The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,James 1:14But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.Genesis 3:13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”Romans 7:8But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.Romans 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?Hebrews 3:13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”James 1:26If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.James 1:22Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”Jeremiah 49:16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.Romans 7:13Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.Obadiah 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

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