Thematic Bible: By its strictness stirs up
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For sin took occasion by the means of the commandment and so deceived me, and by the selfsame commandment, slew me.
For when we were in the flesh, the lusts of sin which were stirred up by the law, reigned in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.
But sin took an occasion by the means of the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For verily, without the law sin was dead.