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Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Romans 7:9 · World English Bible
Romans 7:9 in other translations
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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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.
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.
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