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Rom. 7:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Matt. 19:20• ²⁰The young man says to him, All these have I kept; what lack I yet? (Matt. 19:20)

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Luke 10:25‑29• ²⁵And behold, a certain lawyer stood up tempting him, and saying, Teacher, having done what, shall I inherit life eternal?
²⁶And he said to him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
²⁷But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.
²⁸And he said to him, Thou hast answered right: this do and thou shalt live.
²⁹But he, desirous of justifying himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour? (Luke 10:25‑29)

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Luke 15:29• ²⁹But he answering said to his father, Behold, so many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me hast thou never given a kid that I might make merry with my friends: (Luke 15:29)

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Luke 18:9‑12,21• ⁹And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest of men, this parable:
¹⁰Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.
¹¹The Pharisee, standing, prayed thus to himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer.
¹²I fast twice in the week, I tithe everything I gain.
²¹And he said, All these things have I kept from my youth. (Luke 18:9‑12,21)

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Phil. 3:5‑6• ⁵as to circumcision, I received it the eighth day; of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
⁶as to zeal, persecuting the assembly; as to righteousness which is in the law, found blameless; (Phil. 3:5‑6)

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Matt. 5:21‑26• ²¹Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment.
²²But *I* say unto you, that every one that is lightly angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; but whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be subject to be called before the sanhedrim; but whosoever shall say, Fool, shall be subject to the penalty of the hell of fire.
²³If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee,
²⁴leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
²⁵Make friends with thine adverse party quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest some time the adverse party deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
²⁶Verily I say to thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence till thou hast paid the last farthing. (Matt. 5:21‑26)

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Matt. 15:4‑6• ⁴For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.
⁵But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever it be by which received from me thou wouldest be profited:
⁶and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching. (Matt. 15:4‑6)

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Mark 7:8‑13• ⁸For, leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is delivered by men to keep--washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do.
⁹And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep.
¹⁰For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.
¹¹But *ye* say, If a man say to his father or his mother, It is corban (that is, gift), whatsoever thou mightest have profit from me by …
¹²And ye no longer suffer him to do anything for his father or his mother;
¹³making void the word of God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do. (Mark 7:8‑13)

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Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 10:5• ⁵For Moses lays down in writing the righteousness which is of the law, The man who has practised those things shall live by them. (Rom. 10:5)

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Psa. 40:12• ¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me. (Psa. 40:12)

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Gal. 3:10• ¹⁰For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them; (Gal. 3:10)

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James 2:10‑11• ¹⁰For whoever shall keep the whole law and shall offend in one point, he has come under the guilt of breaking all.
¹¹For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become transgressor of the law. (James 2:10‑11)

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Rom. 7:21‑23• ²¹I find then the law upon *me* who will to practise what is right, that with *me* evil is there.
²²For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:
²³but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members. (Rom. 7:21‑23)

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Rom. 8:7• ⁷Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God; for neither indeed can it be: (Rom. 8:7)

and I died.

Rom. 7:4,6• ⁴So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
⁶but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter. (Rom. 7:4,6)

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Rom. 7:11• ¹¹for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (Rom. 7:11)

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Rom. 3:20• ²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:20)

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Gal. 2:19• ¹⁹For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God. (Gal. 2:19)

• Without the law, sin did not thus agitate a will which refused submission to that which checked it. For a barrier to the will awakens and excites the will. (“Romans 7” by J.N. Darby)

• "For I was alive without the law once." That is, in the state of being "sin dead," he was alive to life here on earth under the dictates of sin, but quite unconscious of its power and bondage. (“A Parenthesis: Romans 7:7-25” by B. Anstey)

• "But when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." When the authoritative voice of God in the Law came home to his quickened soul, it stirred sin into action—"sin revived." (“A Parenthesis: Romans 7:7-25” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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But I was alive apart from law once; but, the commandment having come, sin revived and I died,