Thematic Bible: By its strictness stirs up
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For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].
For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death.
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all [kinds of] covetousness. For apart from the law, sin [is] dead.