for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
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for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
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For synne toke occasion by the meanes of the comaundement and so disceaved me and by the selfe commaundement slewe me.
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For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me.
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Passages linked to Romans 7:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 3:13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
- Romans 7:8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
- Hebrews 3:13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
- Isaiah 44:20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
- Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
- Jeremiah 49:16 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
- Romans 7:13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.
- James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
- James 1:26 If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 11. Led me out of the way, etc. It…
11. Led me out of the way, etc. It is indeed true, that while the will of God is hid from us, and no truth shines on us, the life of men goes wholly astray and is full of errors; nay, we do nothing but wander from the right course, until the law shows to us the way of living rightly: but as we begin then only to perceive our erroneous course, when the Lord loudly reproves us, Paul says rightly, that we are led out of the way, when sin is made evident by the law. Hence the verb, ἐξαπατᾷν, must be understood, not of the thing itself, but of our knowledge; that is, that it is made manifest by the law how much we have departed from the right course. It must then be necessarily rendered, led me out of the way; for hence sinners, who before went on heedlessly, loathe and abominate themselves, when they perceive, through the light which the law throws on the turpitude of sin, that they had been hastening to death. But he away introduces the word occasion, and for this purpose — that we may know that the law of itself does not bring death, but that this happens through something else, and that this is as it were adventitious.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived…
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Ver. 11. Deceived me] Irritated my corrupt nature, and made me sin the more, per accidens, as Pharaoh was the worse for a message of dismission.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For sin, taking occasion by the commandment: see the…
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment: see the notes on Rom 7:8.
Deceived me; i.e. seduced and drew me aside, Heb 3:13; Jam 1:14.
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And by it slew me; i.e. it drove me into despair, or delivered me over to death and damnation, and made me obnoxious thereunto.
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William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain As if the apostle had said, "Sin, or the…
As if the apostle had said, "Sin, or the corruption of my heart and nature, being stirred up by the commandment which forbids lust, and condemns it, enticed me, and persuaded me, and prevailed over me, to yield to the lusts of my own heart, and then condemned me, and slew men for yielding to them."
See here the true and genuine nature of sin: it first deceives, and then destroys: It deceived me, saith the apostle, and then slew me. Sin doth perfectly besot the creature, and renders it injudicious: it befools and deceives us, it pollutes and defiles us, it doth debase and degrade us, and, without repentance, damns and destroys.
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God keep us from being hardened in sinning through the deceitfulness of sin; let no profit tempt us, no pleasure entice us, no power embolden us, no privacy encourage us, to adventure upon any known sin; for its embraces are deadly, it leads to death, and ends in death; after it has deceived us, it certainly destroys us, Sin taking occasion, deceived me, and by it slew me.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For sin taking occasion by the commandment,.... As in…
For sin taking occasion by the commandment,.... As in Rom 7:8,
deceived me; either by promising pleasure or impunity: the same effect is ascribed by the Jews to the evil imagination or corruption of nature, which they say is called an enticer, , "that deceives man" (g):
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and by it slew me; mortally wounded me: not the law, but sin by the law, deceived and slew him; so that as before, the law is cleared from being the cause of sin, so here, from being the cause of death; for though the law is a killing letter, the ministration of condemnation and death, yet it is not the cause of it; but sin, which is a transgression of the law, is that which deceives or leads out of the way, as the word signifies, and then kills. The metaphor is taken from a thief or a robber, who leads a man out of the way into some bypath, and then murders him.
(g) Tzeror Hammor, fol. 141. 3. & 150. 1.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Deceived me - While I expected life by the…
Deceived me - While I expected life by the law, sin came upon me unawares and slew all my hopes.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. Sin, taking occasion] Sin, deriving strength from…
Verse 11. Sin, taking occasion] Sin, deriving strength from the law, threatening death to the transgressor, (See Clarke on Ro 7:8,) deceived me, drew me aside to disobedience, promising me gratification honour, independence, c., as it promised to Eve for to her history the apostle evidently alludes, and uses the very same expression, deceived me, εξηπατησε με. See the preceding note; and see the Septuagint, Ge 3:13.
And by it slew me.] Subjected me to that death which the law denounced against transgressors; and rendered me miserable during the course of life itself. It is well known to scholars that the verb αποκτεινειν signifies not only to slay or kill, but also to make wretched. Every sinner is not only exposed to death because he has sinned, and must, sooner or later, die; but he is miserable in both body and mind by the influence and the effects of sin. He lives a dying life, or a living death.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For sin - This verse is a repetition, with…
For sin - This verse is a repetition, with a little variation of the sentiment in Rom 7:8.
Deceived me - The word used here properly means to lead or seduce from the right way; and then to deceive, solicit to sin, cause to err from the way of virtue, Rom 16:18; 1Co 3:18; 2Co 11:3, “The serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,” 2Th 2:3. The meaning here seems to be, that his corrupt and rebellious propensities, excited by the Law, led him astray; caused him more and more to sin; practiced a species of deception on him by urging him on headlong, and without deliberation, into aggravated transgression. In this sense, all sinners are deceived. Their passions urge them on, deluding them, and leading them further and further from happiness, and involving them, before they are aware, in crime and death. No being in the universe is more deladed than a sinner in the indulgence of evil passions. The description of Solomon in a particular case will apply to all, Pro 7:21-23.
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“With much fair speech she caused him to yield,
With the flattering of her lips she forced him.
He goeth after her straightway,
As an ox goeth to the slaughter,
Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Till a dart strike through his liver,
As a bird hasteth to the snare.”
By it - By the Law, Rom 7:8.
Slew me - Meaning the same as “I died,” Rom 7:8.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Taking occasion—Law was the occasion, sin the author…
11. Taking occasion—Law was the occasion, sin the author of the murder.
Deceived me—Deluded me, as all temptation does with some false good. So did the serpent Eve.
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Slew me—As sin and serpent did both Adam and Eve.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. For sin, &c.] A reiteration of Rom_7:8, with…
11. For sin, &c.] A reiteration of Rom_7:8, with more detail. The “deception” here is fully illustrated by the history of the Fall. (Cp. carefully Gen_3:4-5.) The Tempter “took occasion by” the prohibition to “deceive” the woman as to the character of God for truth and love; alienated her will from Him; and so brought in death. Since then, alas, he finds the human will ready-alienated to his hand.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11-13) The cause of this miscarriage lay not with…
(11-13) The cause of this miscarriage lay not with the Law but with Sin. Sin played the tempter, and then made use of the Commandment to condemn and destroy its victims. All this time the Law (i.e., the whole body of precepts) and the Commandment (i.e., the particular precepts included in the Law) remained perfectly good in themselves. They could not be otherwise, having come from the hand of God Himself. Sin was the fatal power. The Law and the Commandment were only passive instruments which it wielded for the destruction of man. But at the same time Sin itself was exposed by them in all its ever-increasing enormity.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 11. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived…
11. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me. Sin is always a deceiver, however. I cannot explain this save by referring it to a period of life when he was self-deceived, and sinned, thinking he was doing God service. It exactly describes the persecuting Saul of Tarsus. Sin deceived him. When he found he was deceived, it slew him. He was convicted before God.
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William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain 11. “For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived…
11. “For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me and through it slew me.” This verse explains itself. The commandment aroused inbred sin, hitherto still and dormant in his heart. If he had not yielded to sin, the law would have been a great blessing to him. But, like the rest of us, he yielded to sin, which consequently slew him outright.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me,…
for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me .
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Sin. (See Scofield "Rom 5:21").
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Sin. (See Scofield "Rom 5:21").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 For sin took the opportunity through the commandment and…
For sin took the opportunity through the commandment and deceived me. Through the commandment it killed me
As in Romans 7:7-8, Paul is describing sin as a person who can do 3 things: take the opportunity, deceive, and kill. AT: "Because I wanted to sin, I deceived myself into thinking that I could sin and obey the commandment at the same time, but God punished me for disobeying the commandment by separating me from him" (See: Personification)
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sin
"my desire to sin"
took the opportunity through the commandment
Paul is comparing sin to a person who can act. See how you translated this in Romans 7:8. (See: Personification)
it killed me
Paul speaks of God's condemnation on sinners as if it resulted primarily in physical death. AT: "it separated me from God" (See: Metaphor)
holy
Morally perfect, without sin
translationWords
sin
command
deceive
law
holy
righteous
good
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 7:11 Sin . . . deceived me: The language…
7:11 Sin . . . deceived me: The language is reminiscent of Gen 3:13—Paul might be thinking of the Fall.
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