Romans 7:10

and this commandment that was to life, was found to me, to be to death.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

In Context

9And I lived without the law sometime; but when the commandment was come [or but when the commandment had come], sin lived again. But I was dead,

11For sin, through occasion taken by the commandment, deceived me, and by that it slew me.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 20:11and I gave to them my commandments, and I showed to them my dooms, which a man shall do, and live in those. (and I gave them my commandments, and I showed them, or I taught them, my laws, which a person shall do, and shall live because of them.)

Ezekiel 20:21And the sons stirred me to wrath, and went not in my commandments, and kept not my dooms, that they did those, which when a man hath done, he shall live in those, and they defouled my sabbaths. And I menaced to them that I would shed out my strong vengeance on them, and [ful] fill my wrath in them in the desert. (But they stirred me to anger, and went not in my commandments, and kept not, or obeyed not, my laws, so that they did them, which when a person hath done them, he shall live in them, and they defiled my Sabbaths. And I threatened them that I would pour out my strong vengeance upon them, and fulfill my anger against them in the wilderness.)

Romans 10:5For Moses wrote, For the man that shall do rightwiseness that is of the law, shall live in it.

Galatians 3:12But the law is not of belief (or But the Law is not a matter of faith), but he that doeth those things of the law, shall live in them.

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 →

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