Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: {evil: or, evils}

{Is} the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: {for sin: or, by a sacrifice for sin}

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin {was} dead.

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth {it} not, to him it is sin.

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin {was} dead.

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. {lust: or, concupiscence}

So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off. {your...: Heb. the evil of your evil}

And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make {them} the members of an harlot? God forbid.

O {thou that art} named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? {are} these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? {straitened: or, shortened?} {uprightly: Heb. upright?}

Whether {it be} good, or whether {it be} evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.

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