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Romans 7:10 KJV
Romans · chapter 7 · verse 10
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.Romans 7:10 · King James Version
Romans 7:10 in context
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- commandmententolēan order, command, charge, precept, injunction, that which is prescribed to one by reason…G1785 →
- foundheyriskōto come upon, hit upon, to meet with, after searching, to find a thing sought, without…G2147 →
- foundhoytosthis, these, etcG3778 →
- lifezōēlife, the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate, every living soul…G2222 →
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To what he had said in the former paragraph, the apostle here raises an objection, which he answers very fully: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? When he had been speaking of the dominion of sin, he had said so much of the influence of the law as a covenant upon that dominion that it might easily be…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-13