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Romans 7:10
Romans 7:10 is verse 10 of Romans chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
King James Version
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
World English Bible
The commandment which was for life, this I found to be for death;
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Romans 7:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Romans 10:5For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
Leviticus 18:5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 20:11And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them.
Ezekiel 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
Luke 10:27He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Luke 10:28“You have answered correctly,” Jesus said. “Do this and you will live.”
Luke 10:29But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
2 Corinthians 3:7Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,