Romans 7:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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, till I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

Matthew 19:20

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

Luke 15:29

but he answered his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.

Luke 18:21

And he said, “All these I have observed from my youth.”

Romans 10:5

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

Romans 7:10

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

Romans 7:11

For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.

Romans 7:4

Likewise, my brethren, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been 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 serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.

Romans 7:8

But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.

Romans 8:7

For 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 I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.”