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Sin’s Advantage in the Law

7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, aI would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, b“You shall not covet.”  
8 But asin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For bapart from the law sin was dead.  
9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
10 And the commandment, awhich was to bring life, I found to bring death.  
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
12 Therefore athe law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.  

Law Cannot Save from Sin

13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, asold under sin.  
15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. aFor what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.  
16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
18 For I know that ain me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.  
19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.
20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.
22 For I adelight in the law of God according to bthe inward man.  
23 But aI see another law in bmy members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.  
24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me afrom this body of death?  
25 aI thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. 
Verse Comparison: Romans 7:9

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American Standard Version
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

Amplified® Bible
Once I was alive, but quite apart from {and} unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death).

Contemporary English Version
Before I knew about the Law, I was alive. But as soon as I heard that command, sin came to life,

Darby English Version
But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.

Good News Bible
I myself was once alive apart from 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 commandment came, sin sprang to life,

King James Version
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

New American Standard Bible
I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;

New International Version
Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

New King James Version
I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
I felt once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;

Young's Literal Translation
And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

New English Translation
And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive


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