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Romans 7:9

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

KJV

ἐγὼ δὲ ἔζων χωρὶς νόμου ποτέ· ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς ἐντολῆς ἡ ἁμαρτία ἀνέζησεν,

Greek NT

Ego autem vivebam sine lege aliquando : sed cum venisset mandatum, peccatum revixit.

Vulgate

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

ASV

And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
ζάω
zao
verb · 140×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
ποτέ
pote
particle · 29×
χωρίς
choris
adverb · 41×
ἀναζάω
anazao
verb · 2×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐντολή
entole
noun · 66×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210212.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 3:6 — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
  • Acts 9:6 — And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
  • Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Ezek 28:15 — Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
  • Jas 2:10 — For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
  • Luke 15:7 — I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
  • Luke 18:9 — And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
  • Luke 18:9 — And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
  • Mark 10:20 — And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.
  • Matt 9:12 — But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
  • Phil 3:5 — Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
  • Phil 3:6 — Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
  • Ps 36:2 — For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
  • Rom 3:19 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
  • Rom 7:4 — Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto G
  • Rom 7:6 — But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
  • Rom 7:11 — For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
  • Rom 7:21 — I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
  • Rom 8:7 — Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
  • Rom 10:5 — For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.