9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.


In Context

6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

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

10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me. ]

Romans 7:9 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:9Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:9And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:9And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:9But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:9And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:9And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.