Devine Scripture

Romans 7:9

Romans chapter 7 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

Context

v.8but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.

v.9This passage

v.10and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 40:12

    For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

  • Luke 10:25

    And behold, a certain lawyer stood up and made trial of him, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

  • Romans 7:6

    But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

  • Luke 18:21

    And he said, All these things have I observed from my youth up.

  • Matthew 19:20

    The young man saith unto him, All these things have I observed: what lack I yet?

  • Romans 7:11

    for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.