Parallel Verses
Moffatt New Testament
I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;
New American Standard Bible
I was once alive apart
King James Version
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Holman Bible
Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life
International Standard Version
At one time I was alive without any connection to the Law. But when the rule was revealed, sin sprang to life,
A Conservative Version
And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
American Standard Version
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
Amplified
I was once alive without [knowledge of] the Law; but when the commandment came [and I understood its meaning], sin became alive and I died [since the Law sentenced me to death].
An Understandable Version
And I was [once] alive before being aware of the law [i.e., complacent and without a sense of guilt]; but when [awareness of] the commandment [not to sin] came, sin sprang to life,
Anderson New Testament
Indeed, I was alive with out the law, once; but when the commandment came, sin be came alive, and I died:
Bible in Basic English
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;
Common New Testament
I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Daniel Mace New Testament
then it was I once liv'd secure; but when the prohibition came, sin exerted it self, and I was in a dying condition:
Darby Translation
But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.
Godbey New Testament
But I was alive at one time without law: but the commandment having come, sin revived,
Goodspeed New Testament
I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died;
John Wesley New Testament
And I was once alive without the law; but when the commandment came,
Julia Smith Translation
And I was living without law once: and the command having come, sin came back to life, and I died.
King James 2000
For I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I was alive once, apart from the law, but [when] the commandment came, sin sprang to life
Modern King James verseion
For I was alive without the law once. But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I once lived without law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I was dead.
Montgomery New Testament
Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
NET Bible
And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
New Heart English Bible
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Noyes New Testament
And I, apart from the Law, was once alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life again, and I died;
Sawyer New Testament
And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died,
The Emphasized Bible
And, I, was alive, apart from law, at one time, but, the commandment coming, sin sprang up to life,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For though I lived without the law formerly; yet when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.
Twentieth Century New Testament
There was a time when I myself, unconscious of Law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died!
Webster
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Weymouth New Testament
Once, apart from Law, I was alive, but when the Commandment came, sin sprang into life, and I died;
Williams New Testament
I was once alive when I had no connection with the law, but when the command came, sin revived, and then I died;
World English Bible
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Worrell New Testament
And I was alive apart from the law once; but, when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Worsley New Testament
And I was heretofore alive without the law: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died:
Youngs Literal Translation
And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 7:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Knowledge Of Sin Comes Through The Law
8 The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire ??for sin, apart from law, is lifeless. 9 I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died; 10 the command that meant life proved death for me.
Cross References
Matthew 5:21-26
You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence,
Matthew 15:4-6
God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death.
Matthew 19:20
The young man said, "I have observed all these. What more is wanting?"
Mark 7:8-13
You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition.
Luke 10:25-29
Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"
Luke 15:29
but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.
Luke 18:9-12
He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.
Luke 18:21
He said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth."
Romans 3:19-20
Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;
Romans 7:4
It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.
Romans 7:6
but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.
Romans 7:11
The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me.
Romans 7:21-23
So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage;
Romans 8:7
For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).
Romans 10:5
Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.
Galatians 2:19
For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;
Galatians 3:10
Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.
Philippians 3:5-6
I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law,
James 2:10-11
For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything.