Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the very same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me an occasion 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.
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.
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.
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 I once lived without law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I was dead. 10 And the very same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me an occasion of death. 11 For sin took occasion by the means of the commandment and so deceived me, and by the selfsame commandment, slew me.
Names
Cross References
Romans 10:5
Moses describeth the righteousness which cometh of the law, how that the man which doth the things of the law shall live therein.
Leviticus 18:5
Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which, if a man do, he shall live thereby: for I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them.
Ezekiel 20:13
And yet the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They would not walk in my commandments; they have cast away my laws, which whoso keepeth should live in them; and my Sabbath days have they greatly unhallowed. Then I made me to pour out my indignation upon them, and to consume them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:21
Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them, which he that doth shall live in them; neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness.
Luke 10:27-29
And he answered and said, "Thou shalt love thy Lord God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind: and thy neighbor as thyself."
2 Corinthians 3:7
If the ministration of death through the letters figured in stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses for the glory of countenance - which glory nevertheless is done away -
Galatians 3:12
The law is not of faith: but the man that fulfilleth the things contained in the law, shall live in them.