Romans 7:9-10 KJV,NLT

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 7:9

And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.Alive apart from the law ... has reference to a state of innocence, or unconscious morality, as yet without instruction, and uncondemned, which condition may be assumed as a description of Paul's childhood innocence; but, after being instructed in the law, that is, "when the commandment came," sin revived in him, and he fell into the deadness of transgression and sin. Significantly, the last two... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 7:10

And the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death.The commandment ... is another synonym for Moses' law; and by such an expression as this, that the law is "unto life," he wished to soften the impact of what he had said about the law bringing death and causing sin to abound. Paul had the utmost respect for the old law. Who but himself could have said that he "had lived in all good conscience" with reference to it? Paul here recognized the holy purpose of that law God gave... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 7:10

Romans 7:10. Ordained to life— Intended for life. The law, which was just, and such as it ought to be, in having the penalty of death annexed to every transgression of it, (Galatians 3:10.) came to produce death, by not being able to remove the depravity of human nature, and subdue carnal appetites, and keep men free from trespasses against it, the least whereof by the law brought death. See chap. Romans 8:3.Galatians 3:21; Galatians 3:21. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:9

9. For I was alive without the law once—"In the days of my ignorance, when, in this sense, a stranger to the law, I deemed myself a righteous man, and, as such, entitled to life at the hand of God." but when the commandment came—forbidding all irregular desire; for the apostle sees in this the spirit of the whole law. sin revived—"came to life"; in its malignity and strength it unexpectedly revealed itself, as if sprung from the dead. and I died—"saw myself, in the eye of a law never kept and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:10

10, 11. And—thus. the commandment, which was, &c.—designed to—give life—through the keeping of it. I found to be unto death—through breaking it. For sin—my sinful nature. taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me—or "seduced me"—drew me aside into the very thing which the commandment forbade. and by it slew me—"discovered me to myself to be a condemned and gone man" (compare :-, "I died"). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:7-12

2. The law’s activity 7:7-12Paul wrote that the believer is dead to both sin (Romans 6:2) and the Law (Romans 7:4). Are they in some sense the same? The answer is no (Romans 7:7). The apostle referred to the relationship between sin and the Law in Romans 7:5, but now he developed it more fully. Essentially his argument was that the Law is not sinful simply because it makes us aware of what is sinful (cf. Romans 3:20). The Law is similar to an X-ray machine that reveals a tumor. The machine... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:9

Paul was relatively alive apart from the Law. No one is ever completely unrelated to it. However in his past, Paul had lived unaware of the Law’s true demands and was therefore self-righteous (cf. Philippians 3:6). His pre-conversion struggles were mainly intellectual (e.g., Was Jesus the Messiah?) rather than moral."Saul of Tarsus could have headed the Spanish Inquisition, and have had no qualms of conscience!" [Note: Newell, p. 268.] When the commandment entered Paul’s consciousness, it... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:10

The intent of the Law was to bring people blessing (life) as they obeyed it (Leviticus 18:5). Nevertheless because Paul did not obey it, he found that it condemned him.". . . it seems fair to conclude that the law would have given life had it been perfectly obeyed." [Note: Moo, p. 439.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:1-25

The Inadequacy of the Law to save1-6. St. Paul had spoken of the Law in a way which would offend an earnest Jew: cp. Romans 3:20-21; Romans 4:15; Romans 5:20. In this chapter (Romans 7:7-25) he shows that the Law is divine in its character and beneficent in its work, but unable to free a man from the power of sin. Indeed, though not the cause, it is the occasion of sin. But first, in Romans 5:1-6, the statement in Romans 6:14, that Christians are not under law, is enforced and explained. Law... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:9

(9) I was alive.—The state of unconscious morality, uninstructed but as yet uncondemned, may, compared with that state of condemnation, be regarded as a state of “life.”Revived.—The English version well represents the meaning of the original, which is not that sin “came to life,” but that it “came to life again.” Sin is lurking in the heart from the first, but it is dormant until the Commandment comes; then it “revives.”I died.—Became subject to the doom of eternal death. read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 7:9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 7:10

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 7:10

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:9

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 7:10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:7-12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 7:10

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 7:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 7:9

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