Romans 7:10
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
KJV
ἐγὼ δὲ ἀπέθανον, καὶ εὑρέθη μοι ἡ ἐντολὴ ἡ εἰς ζωὴν αὕτη εἰς θάνατον·
Greek NT
Ego autem mortuus sum : et inventum est mihi mandatum, quod erat ad vitam, hoc esse ad mortem.
Vulgate
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:
ASV
And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εὑρίσκω
eurisko
verb · 175×
ζωή
zoe
noun · 135×
θάνατος
thanatos
noun · 120×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
ἀποθνήσκω
apothnesko
verb · 112×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐντολή
entole
noun · 66×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2542The Law entrusted to Israel never sufficed to justify those subject to it; it even became the instrument of "lust."330 The gap between wanting and doing points to the conflict between God's Law which is the "law of my mind," and another law "making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members."331
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me? Calvin expounds the inner conflict of the believer. The law is holy, just, and good, but it reveals sin and arouses it. Paul speaks from his own experience as a regenerate man: the good that I would I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do. This struggle is not the mark of an unregenerate person but of one in whom the S…
In this respect, what is true of the light of nature is true also of the Ten Commandments given by God through Moses specifically to the Jews. For human beings cannot obtain saving grace through the Decalogue, because, although it does expose the magnitude of their sin and increasingly convict them of their guilt, yet it does not offer a remedy or enable them to escape from the…
Cross-references
- 2Cor 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glo
- 2Cor 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glo
- Gal 3:12 — And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
- Gal 5:17 — For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
- Gen 2:17 — But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
- Lev 18:5 — Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
- Rom 10:5 — For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
- Rom 10:5 — For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.