King James Version (KJV)
Romans 7:9
“For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.”
Verse in context — Romans 7
7
What 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.
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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
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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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And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
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For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
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