Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And--thus.
the commandment, which was, etc.--designed
to--give
life--through the keeping of it.
I found to be unto death--through breaking it.
For sin--my sinful nature.
taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me--or "seduced me"--drew me aside into the very thing which the commandment forbade.
and by it slew me--"discovered me to myself to be a condemned and gone man" (compare Romans 7:9, "I died").
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Kings 21:20
Romans 7:6
2 Corinthians 3:9
Ephesians 2:15
Colossians 2:14
1 Timothy 1:8
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