Romans 7:9

Paul describes being 'alive' before the law's full impact, but when the commandment came home, sin sprang to life and he died. Confronted by God's law, he saw himself spiritually condemned.

Cross-references · 20

• Gal 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
• Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
• Jas 2:10–11For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
• Gal 2:19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Rom 10:5For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”
• Rom 7:21–23I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
• Rom 7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
• Rom 7:11for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
• Phil 3:5–6circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Luke 18:9–12He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
• Luke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
• Matt 19:20The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”
• Luke 10:25–29Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
• Matt 5:21–26“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
• Luke 18:21He said, “I have observed all these things from my youth up.”
• Ps 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
• Mark 7:8–13“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men — the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”
• Matt 15:4–6For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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