Romans 7:9
Romans 7:8-12 The Message (MSG)
Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Romans 7:9 King James Version (KJV)
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans 7:9 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died
Romans 7:9 New Century Version (NCV)
I was alive before I knew the law. But when the law’s command came to me, then sin began to live
Romans 7:9 American Standard Version (ASV)
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died
Romans 7:9 New International Version (NIV)
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
Romans 7:9 New King James Version (NKJV)
I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Romans 7:9 Amplified Bible (AMP)
I was once alive without [knowledge of] the Law; but when the commandment came [and I understood its meaning], sin became alive and I died [since the Law sentenced me to death]. [Ps 73:22]
Romans 7:9 New Living Translation (NLT)
At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life