Romans 7:10
And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
In Context
9And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
11For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
Cross References
Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them.
Ezekiel 20:21But the sons rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes, nor kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accom
Romans 10:5For Moses writes in the righteousness from the law, that the man that does them will live in them.
Galatians 3:12And the law is not from faith, but the man who does them will live in them.
Matthew Henry on Romans 7:8-25
Excellency of the Law; Usefulness of the Law. ( a. d. 58.) 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto… Read the whole commentary →