Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of 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.
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 I was alive once, apart from the law, but [when] the commandment came, sin sprang to life 10 and I died, and this commandment which [was] to [lead to] life was found with respect to me to [lead to] death. 11 For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed [me].
Names
Cross References
Romans 10:5
For Moses writes about the righteousness [that is] from the law: "The person who does [this] will live by it."
Leviticus 18:5
And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations {by which the person doing them shall live}; I [am] Yahweh.
Ezekiel 20:11
and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them.
Ezekiel 20:13
"But in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; {they did not walk in my statutes}, and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them,
Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against me; {they did not walk in my statutes}, and {they did not observe my regulations}, which [if] a person does them, then he will live by them. My Sabbaths they desecrated, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to finish my anger against them in the desert.
Luke 10:27-29
And he answered [and] said, "You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."
2 Corinthians 3:7
But if the ministry of death in letters carved on stone came with glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was transitory,
Galatians 3:12
But the law is not from faith, but "the one who does these [things] will live by them."