Romans 7:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ 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)

¹⁰ and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

Common English Bible

¹⁰ and I died. So the commandment that was intended to give life brought death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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 everyone shall live.

Ezekiel 20:13

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

Ezekiel 20:21

But the children rebelled against me; they did not follow my statutes and were not careful to observe my ordinances, by whose observance everyone 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 keep my statutes and my ordinances; by doing so one shall live: I am the Lord.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes concerning the righteousness that comes from the law, that “the person who does these things will live by them.”

Romans 4:15

For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 7:9

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

2 Corinthians 3:7

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside,

Galatians 3:12

But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, “Whoever does the works of the law will live by them.”