Bible verse

Romans 7:10

So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

Romans 7:10 · BSB

Romans 7:10 in context

The verses around it, from Romans 7.

6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

7 What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

9 Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

10 So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

11 For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through the commandment put me to death.

12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Certainly not! But in order that sin might be exposed as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

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Romans 7:10 in other translations

KJV

And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.

ASV

and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

ERV

and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

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