Romans 7:9

New English Translation

And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive

Cross References

Psalm 40:12

For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

Matthew 19:20

The young man said to him, “I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws. What do I still lack?”

Luke 15:29

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

Luke 18:21

The man replied, “I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth.”

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: “The one who does these things will live by them.”

Romans 7:10

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

Romans 7:11

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it I died.

Romans 7:4

So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

Romans 7:6

But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

Romans 8:7

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law so that I may live to God.

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law.”