Romans 7:9

New International Reader's Version

Before I knew about the law, I was alive. But then the commandment came. Sin came to life, and I died.

Cross References

Psalm 40:12

There are more troubles all around me than I can count. My sins have caught up with me, and I can’t see any longer. My sins are more than the hairs of my head. I have lost all hope.

Matthew 19:20

“I have obeyed all those commandments,” the young man said. “What else do I need to do?”

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve worked like a slave for you. I have always obeyed your orders. You never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

Luke 18:21

“I have obeyed all those commandments since I was a boy,” the ruler said.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes about how the law could help a person do what God requires. He writes, “The person who does these things will live by them.” (Leviticus 18:5)

Romans 7:10

I found that the commandment that was supposed to bring life actually brought death.

Romans 7:11

When the commandment gave sin the opportunity, sin tricked me. It used the commandment to put me to death.

Romans 7:4

My brothers and sisters, when Christ died you also died as far as the law is concerned. Then it became possible for you to belong to him. He was raised from the dead. Now our lives can be useful to God.

Romans 7:6

But now we have died to what used to control us. We have been set free from the law. Now we serve in the new way of the Holy Spirit. We no longer serve in the old way of the written law.

Romans 7:8

But the commandment gave sin an opportunity. Sin caused me to want all kinds of things that belong to others. A person can’t sin by breaking a law if that law doesn’t exist.

Romans 8:7

The mind ruled by the power of sin is at war with God. It does not obey God’s law. It can’t.

Galatians 2:19

By the law, I died as far as the law is concerned. I died so that I might live for God.

Galatians 3:10

All who depend on obeying the law are under a curse. It is written, “May everyone who doesn’t continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law be under God’s curse.” (Deuteronomy 27:26)