Romans 7:11
Romans 7:8-12 The Message (MSG)
Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Romans 7:11 King James Version (KJV)
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
Romans 7:11 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Romans 7:11 New Century Version (NCV)
Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.
Romans 7:11 American Standard Version (ASV)
for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
Romans 7:11 New International Version (NIV)
For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
Romans 7:11 New King James Version (NKJV)
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
Romans 7:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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].
Romans 7:11 New Living Translation (NLT)
Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.