Romans 7:12
Romans chapter 7 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Context
v.11for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
v.12This passage
v.13Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Romans 12:2
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
- Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
- Romans 7:16
But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
- Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
- Romans 3:31
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
- Psalms 119:137
Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, And upright are thy judgments.