"And the commandment, which {was ordained} to life, I found {to be} unto death." — Romans 7:10

Romans 7:10 · KJV

“And the commandment, which {was ordained} to life, I found {to be} unto death.”

— Romans 7:10

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.

Romans 7 — Context

But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin {was} dead.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

And the commandment, which {was ordained} to life, I found {to be} unto death.

For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew {me}.

Wherefore the law {is} holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 3:7

But if the ministration of death, written {and} engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which {glory} was to be done away:

Romans 10:5

For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

Leviticus 18:5

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I {am} the LORD.

Galatians 3:12

And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

Ezekiel 20:21

Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:11

And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them. {shewed...: Heb. made them to know}

Luke 10:27-29

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Ezekiel 20:13

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.