Romans Chapter 7 verse 9 Holy Bible
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
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And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;
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But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.
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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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I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
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And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 9-11. - For I was alive without (or, apart from) law once; but when the commandment came, sin revived (or, sprang into life), and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death, For sin, taking occasion, through the commandment deceived me, and through it slew me. If, in saying, "I was alive once," the writer is at all remembering his own experience, the reference may be to the time of the innocence of childhood, before he had any distinct consciousness of the behests of law. Or it may be that he is only imagining a possible state without any consciousness of law, so as to bring out more forcibly the operation of law. On the general drift of ver. 9, Calvin says tersely, "Mors peccati vita est hominis: rursum vita peccati mors hominis." In ver. 11 the conception of sin's action is the same as in ver. 8; but the verb now used is ἐξηπάτησε, with obvious reference to Eve's temptation, which is regarded as representing ours (cf. 2 Corinthians 11:3). The view of the origin of human sin presented to us in Genesis is that man at first lived at peace with God; but that the commandment," Thou shalt not eat of it, lest thou die," was taken advantage of by the "serpent" (answering to personified ἁμαρτία in the passage before us), inspiring sinful lust; and that so the commandment (i.e. law), though in itself holy, became the occasion of sin, and of death as its consequence; and further, that all this came about through delusion (ἐξηπάτησε). The thing desired was not really good for man; but the ἐπιθυμία inspired by the tempter caused it to seem so. One great purpose of regenerating grace is to dispel this delusion; to bring us back to the true view of things as they are, and so to peace with God. Thus, in part, does the apostle teach us to regard the inscrutable mystery of sin, and the remedy for it in Christ.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) I was alive.--The state of unconscious morality, uninstructed but as yet uncondemned, may, compared with that state of condemnation, be regarded as a state of "life."Revived.--The English version well represents the meaning of the original, which is not that sin "came to life," but that it "came to life again." Sin is lurking in the heart from the first, but it is dormant until the Commandment comes; then it "revives."I died.--Became subject to the doom of eternal death.
