Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, 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.
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;
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:
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 7:9
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Context Readings
Knowledge Of Sin Comes Through The Law
8 Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead. 9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; 10 and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death;
Cross References
Psalm 40:12
For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.
Matthew 5:21-26
'Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;
Matthew 15:4-6
for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death;
Matthew 19:20
The young man saith to him, 'All these did I keep from my youth; what yet do I lack?'
Mark 7:8-13
for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.'
Luke 10:25-29
And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, 'Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'
Luke 15:29
and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry;
Luke 18:9-12
And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
Luke 18:21
And he said, 'All these I did keep from my youth;'
Romans 3:19-20
And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;
Romans 7:4
So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;
Romans 7:6
and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
Romans 7:11
for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay me;
Romans 7:21-23
I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
Romans 10:5
for Moses doth describe the righteousness that is of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,'
Galatians 2:19
for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
Galatians 3:10
for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'
Philippians 3:5-6
circumcision on the eighth day! of the race of Israel! of the tribe of Benjamin! a Hebrew of Hebrews! according to law a Pharisee!
James 2:10-11
for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;