Romans 7:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

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  • Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
  • Lev 18:5 : 5 So keep my rules and my decisions, which, if a man does them, will be life to him: I am the Lord.
  • Ezek 20:21 : 21 But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.
  • Luke 10:27-29 : 27 And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself. 28 And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life. 29 But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
  • Ezek 20:11 : 11 And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.
  • Ezek 20:13 : 13 But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.
  • 2 Cor 3:7 : 7 For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:
  • Gal 3:12 : 12 And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

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  • Rom 7:1-9
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    1Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

    2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

    3So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

    4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

    7What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

    9And 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;

  • Rom 7:11-25
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    11For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

    12But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.

    13Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

    14For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

    15And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.

    16But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.

    17So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

    18For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

    19For the good which I have a mind to do, I do not: but the evil which I have no mind to do, that I do.

    20But if I do what I have no mind to do, it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

    21So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

    22In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

    23But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

    24How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

    25I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.

  • Gal 2:18-19
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    18For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

    19For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

  • Rom 8:2-3
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

    3For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

  • 1 Cor 15:56
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    56The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

  • Gal 3:21
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    21Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.

  • Rom 6:7
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    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • Jas 2:11
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    11For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

  • Rom 8:6
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    6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

  • 2 Cor 4:12
    69%

    12So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

  • Rom 10:5
    69%

    5For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.

  • Heb 7:18
    69%

    18So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

  • Rom 6:23
    69%

    23For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:10-11
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    69%

    10For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

    11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

  • Gal 3:12
    68%

    12And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.

  • Rom 5:13
    68%

    13Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

  • Rom 2:12
    68%

    12All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

  • Rom 6:21
    68%

    21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

  • 2 Cor 3:7
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    7For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:

  • Rom 5:20-21
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    68%

    20And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

    21That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 4:15
    68%

    15For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

  • Rom 6:2
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    2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

  • Rom 3:20
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    20Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.