CHAPTER 7 THE SIN NATURE (8) “BUT SIN, TAKING OCCASION BY THE COMMANDMENT, WROUGHT IN ME ALL MANNER OF CONCUPISCENCE. FOR WITHOUT THE LAW SIN WAS DEAD.” Some 15 times in the Seventh Chapter of Romans, Paul uses the word “sin,” or “sins.” In the original Text, 11 times he used the definite article in front of the word sin, making it read “the sin.” The other 4 times he uses it as a noun, and not a verb. All of this means that Paul is not actually talking about acts of sin, but rather the sin nature.