Romans 7:9
Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came to life and I died.
Text-Critical English NT
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
10So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
Cross References
Matthew 5:21“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘Yoʋ shall not murder,’ and, ‘Whoever murders will be subject to judgment.’
Matthew 19:20The young man said to him, “I have kept all these commandments from the time I was a young boy; what do I still lack?”
Luke 10:25And behold, a lawyer stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 18:9He also told this parable to some who were confident in their own righteous and regarded others with contempt:
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
Romans 7:6But now we have been released from the law, having died to that by which we were held, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
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 →