Romans 7:9
Good News Translation
I myself was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,

New Revised Standard Version
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived

Contemporary English Version
Before I knew about the Law, I was alive. But as soon as I heard that command, sin came to life,

New American Bible
I once lived outside the law, but when the commandment came, sin became alive;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

For I.

Matthew 19:20 The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my youth, what is yet wanting to me?

Luke 10:25-29 And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him and saying, Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? . . .

Luke 15:29 And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends.

Luke 18:9-12,21 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable: . . .

Philippians 3:5,6 Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. According to the law, a Pharisee: . . .

without.

Matthew 5:21 You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment.

*etc:

Matthew 15:4-6 Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. . . .

Mark 7:8-13 For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these. . . .

but.

Romans 3:19,20 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God. . . .

Romans 10:5 For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Psalm 40:12 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

James 2:10,11 And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all. . . .

sin.

Romans 7:21-23 I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is present with me. . . .

Romans 8:7 Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.

and I died.

Romans 7:4,6 Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God. . . .

*marg:

Romans 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

Context
God's Law is Holy
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived, 10And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.…
Cross References
Romans 7:8
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Romans 7:10
And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

Romans 7:8
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