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


In Context

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

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, |You shall not covet.|

8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

11 for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Romans 7:9 in Other Translations

The 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.

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 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.