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Romans 7:9-13 KJV
Romans · chapter 7 · verses 9–13
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. 13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.Romans 7:9-13 · King James Version
Romans 7:9-13 in context
7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
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.
13Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
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Key words (Strong's)
- commandmententolēan order, command, charge, precept, injunction, that which is prescribed to one by reason…G1785 →
- exceedingkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- exceedinghyperbolēa throwing beyond, metaph., superiority, excellence, pre-eminence, beyond measure…G5236 →
- occasionaphormēa place from which a movement or attack is made, a base of operations, metaph. that by…G874 →
- deceivedexapataōto deceiveG1818 →
- withoutchōrisseparate, apart, without any, besidesG5565 →
- revivedanazaōlive again, recover life, to be restored to a correct life, of one who returns to a…G326 →
- workingkatergazomaito perform, accomplish, achieve, to work outG2716 →
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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