Romans 7:9

New Century Version

I was alive before I knew the law. But when the law’s command came to me, then sin began to live,

Cross References

Psalm 40:12

Troubles have surrounded me; there are too many to count. My sins have caught me so that I cannot see a way to escape. I have more sins than hairs on my head, and I have lost my courage.

Matthew 19:20

The young man said, “I have obeyed all these things. What else do I need to do?”

Luke 15:29

But the older son said to his father, ‘I have served you like a slave for many years and have always obeyed your commands. But you never gave me even a young goat to have at a feast with my friends.

Luke 18:21

But the leader said, “I have obeyed all these commands since I was a boy.”

Romans 10:5

Moses writes about being made right by following the law. He says, “A person who obeys these things will live because of them.”

Romans 7:10

and I died. The command was meant to bring life, but for me it brought death.

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command to make me die.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers and sisters, your old selves died, and you became free from the law through the body of Christ. This happened so that you might belong to someone else—the One who was raised from the dead—and so that we might be used in service to God.

Romans 7:6

In the past, the law held us like prisoners, but our old selves died, and we were made free from the law. So now we serve God in a new way with the Spirit, and not in the old way with written rules.

Romans 7:8

And sin found a way to use that command and cause me to want all kinds of things I should not want. But without the law, sin has no power.

Romans 8:7

When people’s thinking is controlled by the sinful self, they are against God, because they refuse to obey God’s law and really are not even able to obey God’s law.

Galatians 2:19

It was the law that put me to death, and I died to the law so that I can now live for God.

Galatians 3:10

But those who depend on following the law to make them right are under a curse, because the Scriptures say, “Anyone will be cursed who does not always obey what is written in the Book of the Law.”