Romans 7:11 Parallel Translations
NASB: for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Sin, taking the opportunity provided by this commandment, deceived me and then killed me.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
ASV: for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
BBE: For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
DBY: for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
ERV: for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
WEY: For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.
WBS: For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
WEB: for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
YLT: for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay me;
Romans 7:11 Cross References
XREF:Genesis 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Romans 3:20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
PNT: 7:11 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.
WES: 7:11 Deceived me - While I expected life by the law, sin came upon me unawares and slew all my hopes.
MHC: 7:7-13 There is no way of coming to that knowledge of sin, which is necessary to repentance, and therefore to peace and pardon, but by trying our hearts and lives by the law. In his own case the apostle would not have known the sinfulness of his thoughts, motives, and actions, but by the law. That perfect standard showed how wrong his heart and life were, proving his sins to be more numerous than he had before thought, but it did not contain any provision of mercy or grace for his relief. He is ignorant of human nature and the perverseness of his own heart, who does not perceive in himself a readiness to fancy there is something desirable in what is out of reach. We may perceive this in our children, though self-love makes us blind to it in ourselves. The more humble and spiritual any Christian is, the more clearly will he perceive that the apostle describes the true believer, from his first convictions of sin to his greatest progress in grace, during this present imperfect state. St. Paul was once a Pharisee, ignorant of the spirituality of the law, having some correctness of character, without knowing his inward depravity. When the commandment came to his conscience by the convictions of the Holy Spirit, and he saw what it demanded, he found his sinful mind rise against it. He felt at the same time the evil of sin, his own sinful state, that he was unable to fulfil the law, and was like a criminal when condemned. But though the evil principle in the human heart produces sinful motions, and the more by taking occasion of the commandment; yet the law is holy, and the commandment holy, just, and good. It is not favourable to sin, which it pursues into the heart, and discovers and reproves in the inward motions thereof. Nothing is so good but a corrupt and vicious nature will pervert it. The same heat that softens wax, hardens clay. Food or medicine when taken wrong, may cause death, though its nature is to nourish or to heal. The law may cause death through man's depravity, but sin is the poison that brings death. Not the law, but sin discovered by the law, was made death to the apostle. The ruinous nature of sin, and the sinfulness of the human heart, are here clearly shown.
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