Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
New American Standard Bible
and this commandment, which was
King James Version
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Holman Bible
and I died. The commandment that was meant for life
International Standard Version
and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
A Conservative Version
And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death.
American Standard Version
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:
Amplified
And the very commandment which was intended to bring life, actually proved to bring death for me.
An Understandable Version
and I died [i.e., came under its power]. And [so] the commandment, which was [intended] to bring [spiritual] life, actually brought [spiritual] death.
Anderson New Testament
and the commandment, which was given for life, I found to be for death.
Common New Testament
The very commandment which was to bring life I found to be death to me.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and the commandment which leads to life was instrumental to my ruin.
Darby Translation
And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:
Godbey New Testament
and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, the same was unto death.
Goodspeed New Testament
and the command that should have meant life in my case proved to mean death.
John Wesley New Testament
sin revived, and I died, And the commandment, which was intended for life, this I found unto death.
Julia Smith Translation
And the command was found to me which for life, this for death.
King James 2000
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and I died, and this commandment which [was] to [lead to] life was found with respect to me to [lead to] death.
Modern King James verseion
And the commandment, which was to life, was found to be death to me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the very same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me an occasion of death.
Moffatt New Testament
the command that meant life proved death for me.
Montgomery New Testament
and the very commandment which should have meant life, this I found to mean death.
NET Bible
and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!
New Heart English Bible
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Noyes New Testament
and the very commandment whose design was life, I found to issue in death.
Sawyer New Testament
and the commandment which was for life was found to be for death.
The Emphasized Bible
Whereas, I, died, - and the commandment which was unto life was found by me to be, itself, unto death;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And the commandment, which [was] for life, the same was found by me for death.
Twentieth Century New Testament
The very Commandment that should have meant Life I found to result in Death!
Webster
And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be to death.
Weymouth New Testament
and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
Williams New Testament
and so, in my case, the command which should have meant life turned out to mean death.
World English Bible
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
Worrell New Testament
And the commandment which was unto life was itself found by me to be unto death;
Worsley New Testament
and the commandment which was intended to life, I found to be unto death.
Youngs Literal Translation
and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death;
Themes
death » Figurative of regeneration
Good and evil » Subjective conflict between
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 7:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Knowledge Of Sin Comes Through The Law
9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death; 10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
Names
Cross References
Romans 10:5
For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
Leviticus 18:5
So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:11
And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.
Ezekiel 20:13
But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.
Ezekiel 20:21
But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.
Luke 10:27-29
And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.
2 Corinthians 3:7
For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:
Galatians 3:12
And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.