Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Romans 7:10-11

10-11. And--thus.

the commandment, which was, &c.--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 Ro 7:9, "I died").