Romans 7:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the very legal ordinance which was designed and intended to bring life actually proved [to mean to me] death. [Lev. 18:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

Common English Bible

and I died. So the commandment that was intended to give life brought death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

Romans 7:10 Cross References

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live.

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not walk in my statutes but rejected my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. “Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes, and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance man shall live; they profaned my sabbaths. “Then I thought I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Leviticus 18:5

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, by doing which a man shall live: I am the Lord.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes that the man who practices the righteousness which is based on the law shall live by it.

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

Romans 7:9

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the dispensation of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such splendor that the Israelites could not look at Moses' face because of its brightness, fading as this was,

Galatians 3:12

but the law does not rest on faith, for “He who does them shall live by them.”