Romans 7:9

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

Cross References

Galatians 3:10

All who rely on obeying the law are under a curse. It is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

Romans 8:7

The mind that’s ruled by wrong desires is at war with God. It doesn’t obey God’s law, because it can’t.

Galatians 2:19

“Through my experience with the law, I died to the law so that I might live for God.

Romans 10:5

Moses writes about how the law could help a person do what God requires: “The person who does these things will live by them.”

Romans 7:11

Sin took advantage of the opportunity that the commandment provided, and it tricked me. It used the commandment to put me to death.

Romans 7:6

But now we have died to what used to control us, and we have been set free from the law. We serve in the new way of the Holy Spirit, not in the old way of the written law.

Romans 7:4

My brothers and sisters, when Christ died, you also died, and so you were no longer “married” to the law. Then it became possible for you to belong to Christ instead. He was raised from the dead so that our lives could produce what God wanted.

Luke 18:21

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

Luke 15:29

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

Matthew 19:20

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

Romans 7:8

But once I did know about coveting, sin took that opportunity to make me want all kinds of things that belonged to other people! A person can’t sin by breaking a law if that law doesn’t exist.

Romans 7:10

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