¹³ Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; --that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

⁸ but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin `is' dead.

⁹ And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

¹⁰ and the commandment, which `was' unto life, this I found `to be' unto death:

¹¹ for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

¹³ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:

¹⁴ but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁵ Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

²⁰ And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

³ For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.