Romans 7:9
But I was alive without the law formerly: but when the commandment came, sin lived, and I died.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 that commandment of life was found to me (to tend) unto death.
Cross References
Matthew 5:21YOU have heard that it was said unto them who were before, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill is obnoxious to the judgment.
Matthew 19:20The young man saith to him, These all have I kept from my childhood: how am I deficient?
Luke 10:25AND, behold, a certain Sophra stood up to try him, saying, Malphona, what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?
Luke 18:9And he spake this parable against some who trusted in themselves that they were just, and despised all (men):
Romans 3:19BUT we know that whatever the law saith, to them who are under the law it saith: that every mouth may be shut, and all the world be guilty unto Aloha.
Romans 7:6but now we are loosed from the law, and are dead to that which held us, that we might serve henceforth in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the writing.
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 →