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Romans 7:9 Cross-References
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“For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.”
Romans 7:9 (KJV)
Commentary on Romans 7:9
For I was alive without the law once—Ezōn (ἔζων, "I was living") likely refers to Paul's pre-Bar Mitzvah childhood before taking personal responsibility for Torah observance, or more broadly to humanity's pre-Sinai existence. The sense of being "alive" was illusory self-righteousness, unaware of sin's death-sentence.But when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.—Anezēsen (ἀνέζησεν, "sprang to life/revived") depicts sin awakening like a dormant beast. Apethanon (ἀπέθανον, "I died") describes experiential awareness of spiritual death—the collision between God's righteous standard and hu...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Romans 7:9
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“Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.{Deuteronomy 27:26}”
“neither indeed can it be.”
“my brothers”
“and yet stumbles in one point”
“through the law”
“finding occasion through the commandment”
“having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit”
“The one who does them will live by them.{Leviticus 18:5}”
“that”
“and who despised all others.”