⁸ `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.

¹¹ for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay `me';

¹⁵ for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither `is' transgression.

⁵⁶ and the sting of the death `is' the sin, and the power of the sin the law;

²² if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

²⁴ if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

¹³ That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

¹⁷ and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

¹⁴ and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

¹⁵ afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.