Romans 7:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death). [Ps. 73:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

Common English Bible

⁹ I used to be alive without the Law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Romans 7:9 Cross References

Psalm 40:12

For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

Matthew 19:20

The young man said to him, “I have kept all these; what do I still lack?”

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Listen! For all these years I have been working like a slave for you, and I have never disobeyed your command, yet you have never given me even a young goat so that I might celebrate with my friends.

Luke 18:21

He replied, “I have kept all these since my youth.”

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 7:10

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

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Romans 7:6

But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law sin lies dead.

Romans 8:7

For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ,

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.”