ἡ γὰρ ἁμαρτία ἀφορμὴν λαβοῦσα διὰ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἐξηπάτησέν με καὶ διʼ αὐτῆς ἀπέκτεινεν.

e gar amartia aphormen labousa dia tes entoles exepatesen me kai di' autes apekteinen.

nam peccatum occasione accepta per mandatum seduxit me et per illud occidit

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me and by it slew me.

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

For sin, in the occasion that it found for itself, seduced me by the commandment, and killed me with it.

for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me, and by it killed me.

for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Sin, taking the opportunity provided by this commandment, deceived me and then killed me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

For sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the rule, deceived me and used it to kill me.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

For sin seized the advantage, and by means of the Commandment it completely deceived me, and also put me to death.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

That command gave sin a chance to deceive me. It caused me to become separate from God.

for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];

Sin found a way to trap me by working through the Law. Then sin killed me by using the Law.

For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me; and thereby killed me.

Sin took advantage of the commandment, tricked me, and exploited it in order to kill me.

Sin fooled me by taking the good laws of God and using them to make me guilty of death.

For sin, seizing an opportunity offered by the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

For sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

For sin, seizing the opportunity and getting a hold on me [by taking its incentive] from the commandment, beguiled and entrapped and cheated me, and using it [as a weapon], killed me.

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.

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.

You see, sin, seizing the opportunity provided by this commandment, deceived me and put me to death through it.

· For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For sin took occasion by the means of the commandment, and thus deceived me, and by the same commandment slew me.

Sin found its chance, and by means of the commandment it deceived me and killed me.

For sin, through occasion taken by the commandment, deceived me, and by that it slew me [and by it slew me].

For sin grabbed its opportunity through the commandment. It deceived me, and, through it, killed me.

Sin used this command to trick me, and because of it I died.

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

But the sin in me, finding in the commandment an opportunity to express itself, stimulated all my covetous desires. For sin, in the absence of the Law, has no chance to function technically as “sin”. As long, then, as I was without the Law I was, spiritually speaking, alive. But when the commandment arrived, sin sprang to life and I “died”. The commandment, which was meant to be a direction to life, I found was a sentence to death. The commandment gave sin an opportunity, and without my realising what was happening, it “killed” me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Sin seized the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and killed me.

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].

For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it put me to death.

for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it, killed me.

Sin ·found a way [seized the occasion/opportunity; v. 8] to ·fool [deceive] me by using the command to make me die.

Sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

When the commandment gave sin the opportunity, sin tricked me. It used the commandment to put me to death.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me; and through the commandment, sin killed me.

My wrong ways used the law to fool me and kill me.

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For Chet (Sin), seizing its opportunity through the mitzvoh (commandment), deceived me and, through the mitzvoh (commandment), killed me [BERESHIS 3:1-6].

Sin, taking the opportunity provided by this commandment, deceived me and then killed me.

For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and killed me through it.

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command. Sin used the command to make me die.

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

For sin, having taken an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it, killed me.