Romans 7:9
Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,
Catholic Public Domain 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 died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.
Cross References
Matthew 5:21You have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not murder; whoever will have murdered shall be liable to judgment.’
Matthew 19:20The young man said to him: “All these I have kept from my childhood. What is still lacking for me?”
Luke 10:25And behold, a certain expert in the law rose up, testing him and saying, “Teacher, what must I do to possess eternal life?”
Luke 18:9Now about certain persons who consider themselves to be just, while disdaining others, he told also this parable:
Romans 3:19But we know that whatever the law speaks, it speaks to those who are in the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the entire world may be subject to God.
Romans 7:6But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by 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 →