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OET (OET-LV) But opportunity having_taken the sin by the command, produced in me all covetousness, because/for apart_from the_law, sin dead.
OET (OET-RV) But sin took the opportunity from that commandment to produce covetousness in me, because sin would be dead apart from the Law.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
ἀφορμὴν & λαβοῦσα ἡ ἁμαρτία διὰ τῆς ἐντολῆς, κατειργάσατο ἐν ἐμοὶ πᾶσαν ἐπιθυμίαν
opportunity & /having/_taken ¬the sin by the commandment produced in me all covetousness
Here Paul speaks of sin as if it were a person who could take an opportunity and produce covetousness within a person. Paul means that his desire to sin by coveting increased when he learned the commandment that prohibits coveting. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “my desire to sin, increasing as a result of the commandment, led me to covet”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τῆς ἐντολῆς
the commandment
Here, the commandment refers specifically to the command, “You will not covet,” in the previous verse. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “the command that we should not covet”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
τῆς ἐντολῆς
the commandment
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of commandment, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “what God commanded”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἐπιθυμίαν
covetousness
See how you translated covetousness in the previous verse.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
χωρὶς & νόμου, ἁμαρτία νεκρά
apart_from & /the/_law sin dead
Here Paul speaks of sin as if it were something which could be dead. Paul means that his desire to sin would not have increased if God had not given his laws. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “if there were no law, my desire to sin would not have been stimulated”
7:8 sin used this command (literally sin took an opportunity through this command): The word opportunity is a military term for a position seized in enemy territory that becomes a base of operations (see 7:11). By expressing God’s demands, the commandments stimulate rebellion in sinful human beings. The commandments of God become an occasion for sin to accomplish its deadly purposes.
• sin would not have that power: The law, by clearly expressing God’s will, makes people more accountable than they would be without it. The law of Moses did not solve Israel’s sin problem but exposed and exacerbated it. This is always the effect that God’s law, by itself, has on sinful human beings.
OET (OET-LV) But opportunity having_taken the sin by the command, produced in me all covetousness, because/for apart_from the_law, sin dead.
OET (OET-RV) But sin took the opportunity from that commandment to produce covetousness in me, because sin would be dead apart from the Law.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.