Romans 7:9
Indeed, I was alive without the law, once; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died:
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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 the commandment, which was given for life, I found to be for death.
Cross References
Matthew 5:21You have heard that it was said to the ancients: You shall not kill; and whoever shall kill, shall be liable to the sentence of the judges.
Matthew 19:20The young man said to him: All these have I kept from my youth, what do I lack?
Luke 10:25And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up to tempt him, and said: Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luke 18:9And he spoke this parable to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and who despised others.
Romans 3:19Now we know that what the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God.
Romans 7:6but now we are made free from the law, being dead to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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 →