Category: Romans

American Standard Version (ASV):
for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

King James Version (KJV):
For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

American Standard Version (ASV):
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

King James Version (KJV):
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

King James Version (KJV):
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

American Standard Version (ASV):
and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death:

King James Version (KJV):
And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.

American Standard Version (ASV):
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

King James Version (KJV):
What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

American Standard Version (ASV):
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.

King James Version (KJV):
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.

American Standard Version (ASV):
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

King James Version (KJV):
For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

American Standard Version (ASV):
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

King James Version (KJV):
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

American Standard Version (ASV):
So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

King James Version (KJV):
So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

King James Version (KJV):
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.