Romans 7:9
7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
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.
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
10 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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
- KJV
- For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- WEB
- I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
- ASV
- And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
- DARBY
- But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.
- BLB
- And I was once alive apart from the law, but [on] the commandment's having come, sin revived and I died;
- ÅB
- Jeg levde en gang uten loven. Men da budet kom ble synden levende igjen.
- OTB
- Det var en tid da jeg levde uten loven; men da budet kom, ble synden levende og jeg døde.
- B1930
- Jeg levde en tid uten lov; men da budet kom, blev synden levende igjen,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Galatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Read in contextRomans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Read in contextRomans 7:4
Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
Read in contextJames 2:10–11
Whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
Read in contextGalatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
Read in contextRomans 7:21–23
So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
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 contextRomans 7:6
But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
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