Romans 7:9

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died!

Cross References

Matthew 19:20

"I have observed all these," said the young man. "What is still wanting in me?"

Luke 15:29

'No,' he said to his father, 'look at all the years I have been serving you, without ever once disobeying you, and yet you have never given me even a kid, so that I might have a merry-making with my friends.

Luke 18:21

"I have observed all these," he replied, "from childhood."

Romans 10:5

For Moses writes that, as for the righteousness which results from Law, 'those who practice it will find Life through it.'

Romans 7:10

The very Commandment that should have meant Life I found to result in Death!

Romans 7:11

Sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my Death.

Romans 7:4

And so with you, my Brothers; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God.

Romans 7:6

But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.

Romans 7:8

But sin took advantage of the Commandment to arouse in me every form of covetousness, for where there is no consciousness of Law sin shows no sign of life.

Romans 8:7

Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.

Galatians 2:19

I, indeed, through Law became dead to Law, in order to live for God.

Galatians 3:10

All who rely upon obedience to Law are under a curse, for Scripture says--'Cursed is every one who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law, and do it.'