Romans 7:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
  • Matt 5:21-26 : 21 You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged: 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire. 23 If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you, 24 While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering. 25 Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison. 26 Truly I say to you, You will not come out from there till you have made payment of the very last farthing.
  • Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. 5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; 6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
  • Matt 19:20 : 20 The young man says to him, All these things have I done: what more is there?
  • Mark 7:8-9 : 8 For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men. 9 And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you. 10 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death: 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God, 12 You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.
  • Luke 10:25-29 : 25 And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life? 26 And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it? 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?
  • Luke 15:29 : 29 But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:
  • Luke 18:9-9 : 9 And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others: 10 Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer. 11 The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer. 12 Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.
  • Luke 18:21 : 21 And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: 20 Because 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.
  • Rom 7:4 : 4 In 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.
  • Rom 7:6 : 6 But 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.
  • Rom 7:11 : 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
  • Rom 7:21-23 : 21 So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me. 22 In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God, 23 But 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.
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
  • Rom 10:5 : 5 For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.
  • Gal 3:10 : 10 For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
  • Phil 3:5-6 : 5 Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee: 6 In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
  • Jas 2:10-11 : 10 For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all. 11 For 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.

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    3 So 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.

    4 In 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.

    5 For 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.

    6 But 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.

    7 What 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.

    8 But 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.

  • Rom 7:10-25
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    10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

    11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.

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

    13 Was 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.

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

    15 And 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.

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

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

    18 For 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.

    19 For 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.

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

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

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

    23 But 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.

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

    25 I 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 2:18-21
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    18 For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.

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

    20 I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

    21 I 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.

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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

    3 For 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:

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    13 Because, 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.

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    7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

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    12 All 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;

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

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

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    21 To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

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    1 Is 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?

  • Gal 3:21
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    21 Is 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.

  • Eph 2:1
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    1 And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

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

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because 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.

  • Rom 5:20
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    20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

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    11 For 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.

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    11 Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.

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

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

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    20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

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    14 For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

  • 1 Tim 1:9
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    9 With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,