Romans 7:10
8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
- KJV
- And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
- WEB
- The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
- ASV
- and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death:
- DARBY
- And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:
- BLB
- and the commandment that [was] unto life, this was found by me unto death.
- ÅB
- Jeg derimot døde. Budet, som skulle være til liv, var til død for meg;
- OTB
- Jeg fant at budet, som var ment å bringe liv, faktisk brakte død.
- B1930
- jeg derimot døde; og budet, som var til liv, det blev funnet å være mig til død;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 18:5
Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:7
Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
Read in contextGalatians 3:12
The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, “The man who does these things will live by them.”
Read in contextRomans 10:5
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
Read in contextEzekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:11
And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
Read in contextLuke 10:27–29
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Read in contextEzekiel 20:13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
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