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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• ²⁰{i}The young man says to him, All these have I kept; what lack I yet?{/i} (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 that, shall I inherit life eternal?
²⁶{i}And he said to him,{/i} 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.
²⁸{i}And he said to him,{/i} 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• ²⁹And he, answering, said to his father, Behold, these many years I serve thee, and never have I transgressed a commandment of thine; and to me thou hast 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 them], 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 that I acquire.
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• ⁵in circumcision of eight days, of [the] race of Israel, of [the] tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, according to law a Pharisee,
⁶according to zeal persecuting the church, according to righteousness that [is] in law blameless. (Phil. 3:5‑6)

without.

Matt. 5:21‑26• ²¹Ye have heard that it was said to those of old, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment.
²²But I say to you, that everyone that is [lightly] angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be subject to the council; and whosoever shall say, Fool, shall be subject to the hell of fire.
²³If therefore thou be offering thy gift at the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee,
²⁴leave there thy gift before the altar, and go; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
²⁵Make friends with thine adversary quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the official, and thou be cast into prison.
²⁶Verily I say to thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence till thou have paid the last farthing. (Matt. 5:21‑26)

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Matt. 15:4‑6• ⁴{i}For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.{/i}
⁵{i}But 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:{/i}
⁶{i}and 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.{/i} (Matt. 15:4‑6)

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Mark 7:8‑13• ⁸For, leaving the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing 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 your own tradition.
¹⁰For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.
¹¹{i}But{/i} ye say, If a man say to his father or mother, It is corban, that is, gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
¹²and ye suffer him no more to do anything for his father or his mother,
¹³making void the word of God through your traditions 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 things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with 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 describeth the righteousness that [is] by the law, that the man who hath done those things shall live by them. (Rom. 10:5)

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Psa. 40:12• (Psa. 40:12)

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Gal. 3:10• ¹⁰For as many as are of works of law are under curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doth not continue in all things that 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 law as a whole, but shall offend in one [point] is become guilty of all.
¹¹For he that said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. And if thou commit not adultery but killest, thou art become a transgressor of law. (James 2:10‑11)

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Rom. 7:21‑23• ²¹I find then the law, for me wishing to practice the right, that the evil is present with me.
²²For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,
²³but I see a different law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin that is 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 indeed it cannot; (Rom. 8:7)

and I died.

Rom. 7:4,6• ⁴So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should belong to another, him that was raised out of [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
⁶but now have we got quittance from the law, having died in what we were held so as for us to serve in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter. (Rom. 7:4,6)

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Rom. 7:11• ¹¹For sin having taken 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, by law, 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,