Romans 7:10
Good News Translation
and I died. And the commandment which was meant to bring life, in my case brought death.

New Revised Standard Version
and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

Contemporary English Version
and I died. The very command that was supposed to bring life to me, instead brought death.

New American Bible
then I died, and the commandment that was for life turned out to be death for me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

Romans 10:5 For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Leviticus 18:5 Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:11,13,21 And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. . . .

Luke 10:27-29 He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. . . .

2 Corinthians 3:7 Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), which is made void:

Context
God's Law is Holy
9And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived, 10And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me. 11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.…
Cross References
Leviticus 18:5
Keep my laws and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them, I am the Lord.

Luke 10:28
And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou shalt live.

Romans 4:15
For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 7:9
And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

Romans 10:5
For Moses wrote that the justice which is of the law: The man that shall do it shall live by it.

Galatians 3:12
But the law is not of faith: but he that doth those things shall live in them.

Romans 7:9
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