But sin took an occasion by the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law sin is [a]dead.

[b]For I once was alive, without the [c]law: but when the commandment [d]came, sin revived,

10 But I [e]died: and the same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me unto death.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 7:8 Though sin be in us, yet it is not known for sin, neither doth it so rage, as it rageth after that the law is known.
  2. Romans 7:9 He setteth himself before us for an example, in whom all men may behold, first what they are of nature before they earnestly think upon the law of God: to wit, blockish, and ready to sin and wickedness, without all true sense and feeling of sin, then what manner of persons they become, when their conscience is reproved by the testimony of the law, to wit, stubborn, and more inflamed with the desire of sin, than ever they were before.
  3. Romans 7:9 When I knew not the law, then me thought I lived in deed: for my conscience never troubled me, because it knew not my disease.
  4. Romans 7:9 When I began to understand the commandment.
  5. Romans 7:10 In sin, or by sin.

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