Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

New American Standard Bible

for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

International Standard Version

For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me.

A Conservative Version

For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, beguiled and completely deceived me, and using it as a weapon killed me [separating me from God].

An Understandable Version

For by means of God's commandment [against sinning], sin found an opportunity to deceive me and [even] kill me [spiritually].

Anderson New Testament

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

Common New Testament

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

Daniel Mace New Testament

for sin getting power by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

Darby Translation

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

Godbey New Testament

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

Goodspeed New Testament

The command gave sin an opening and sin deceived me and killed me with it.

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

For sin having taken occasion by the command, deceived me completely, and by it killed me.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For sin took occasion by the means of the commandment and so deceived me, and by the selfsame commandment, slew me.

Moffatt New Testament

The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me.

Montgomery New Testament

For sin, when it had gained a vantage-ground through the commandment, beguiled me, and through it slew me.

NET Bible

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

New Heart English Bible

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Noyes New Testament

For sin, seizing the opportunity, deceived me through the commandment, and through it slew me.

Sawyer New Testament

For sin having taken occasion through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me.

The Emphasized Bible

For, sin, - taking occasion - through the commandment, completely deceived me and, through it, slew me:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For sin, seizing the occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and thereby slew me.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my Death.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.

Williams New Testament

For sin found its rallying point in that command and through it deceived me and killed me.

World English Bible

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Worrell New Testament

for sin, taking occasion through the commandment, thoroughly deceived me, and through it slew me.

Worsley New Testament

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

λαμβάνω 
lambano 
receive, take, have, catch, not tr,
Usage: 178

ἀφορμή 
Aphorme 
Usage: 7

by
διά 
Dia 
διά 
Dia 
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
by, through, with, for, for ... sake, therefore , for this cause , because,
Usage: 527
Usage: 527

ἐντολή 
Entole 
Usage: 47

ἐξαπατάω 
Exapatao 
Usage: 5

me
μέ 
me 
me, I, my, not tr
Usage: 122

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

it

Usage: 0

ἀποκτείνω 
Apokteino 
Usage: 40

Context Readings

Knowledge Of Sin Comes Through The Law

10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law. 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

Cross References

Romans 7:8

But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

Genesis 3:13

And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

Hebrews 3:13

But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:

Isaiah 44:20

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

Jeremiah 49:16

... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

Obadiah 1:3

You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?

Romans 7:13

Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

Ephesians 4:22

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

James 1:22

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

James 1:26

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

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