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Romans 7:9
“I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.”
Verse in context — Romans 7
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What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet.
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But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
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I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
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for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
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