Romans 7:9
And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
In Context
10And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death.
Cross References
Matthew 5:21Ye have heard that it was said to them in old times, Thou shall not murder, and whoever murders will be liable to the judgment.
Matthew 19:20The young man says to him, All these things I have kept from my youthfulness. What do I lack yet?
Luke 10:25And behold, a certain lawyer stood up testing him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, would I inherit eternal life?
Luke 18:9And he also spoke this parable to some of those who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous, and disdained other men.
Romans 3:19Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.
Romans 7:6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.
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 →