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Young's Literal Translation

Romans 7:10

and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Good and Evil;   Justification;   Scofield Reference Index - Flesh;   Law of Moses;   The Topic Concordance - Law;   Ordination;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Covet;   Law;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Command, Commandment;   Death, Mortality;   Flesh;   Freedom;   Galatians, Theology of;   Law;   Sin;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Law;   Sin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Custodian;   Death;   Life;   Romans, Book of;   Torah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Justification, Justify;   Law;   Man;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Commandment;   Grace ;   Law;   Personality;   Presence (2);   Regeneration;   Romans Epistle to the;   Sin;   Sin (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Life;   Ordain;   Pauline Theology;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Yeẓer Ha-Ra';  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.
King James Version (1611)
And the commandement which was ordained to life, I found to be vnto death.
King James Version
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
English Standard Version
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
New American Standard Bible
and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;
New Century Version
and I died. The command was meant to bring life, but for me it brought death.
Amplified Bible
And the very commandment which was intended to bring life, actually proved to bring death for me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;
Legacy Standard Bible
and this commandment, which was to lead to life, was found to lead to death for me.
Berean Standard Bible
So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
Contemporary English Version
and I died. The very command that was supposed to bring life to me, instead brought death.
Complete Jewish Bible
and I died. The commandment that was intended to bring me life was found to be bringing me death!
Darby Translation
And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:
Easy-to-Read Version
and I died spiritually. The command was meant to bring life, but for me it brought death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.
George Lamsa Translation
And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be for death.
Good News Translation
and I died. And the commandment which was meant to bring life, in my case brought death.
Lexham English Bible
and I died, and this commandment which was to lead to life was found with respect to me to lead to death.
Literal Translation
And the commandment which was to life, this was found to be death to me;
American Standard Version
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:
Bible in Basic English
And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:
Hebrew Names Version
The mitzvah, which was to life, this I found to be to death;
International Standard Version
and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.Leviticus 18:5; Ezekiel 20:11,13, 21; 2 Corinthians 3:7;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And that commandment of life was found to me (to tend) unto death.
Murdock Translation
and the commandment of life was found by me [fn] unto death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I was dead. And the very same commaundemet, which was ordeyned vnto lyfe, was founde to be vnto me an occasion of death.
English Revised Version
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:
World English Bible
The commandment, which was to life, this I found to be to death;
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
sin revived, and I died, And the commandment, which was intended for life, this I found unto death.
Weymouth's New Testament
and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But Y was deed, and this comaundement that was to lijf, was foundun to me, to be to deth.
Update Bible Version
and I died, and the commandment, which [was] to life, this I found [to be] to death:
Webster's Bible Translation
And the commandment which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] to death.
New English Translation
and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!
New King James Version
And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.
New Living Translation
and I died. So I discovered that the law's commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.
New Life Bible
The Law was supposed to give me new life. Instead, it gave me death.
New Revised Standard
and I died, and the very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whereas, I, died, - and the commandment which was unto life was found by me to be, itself, unto death;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.
Revised Standard Version
the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the very same comaundement which was ordeyned vnto lyfe was founde to be vnto me an occasion of deeth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the very same commaundement that was geuen me vnto life, was founde to be vnto me on occasion of death.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and the commandment which leads to life was instrumental to my ruin.
Simplified Cowboy Version
This, and other sins, only lead to death. The Code that should have brought me life only showed me how much I deserved death.

Contextual Overview

7 What, then, shall we say? the law [is] sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: 8 `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead. 9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; 10 and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death; 11 for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me]; 12 so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. 13 That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Romans 10:5, Leviticus 18:5, Ezekiel 20:11, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, Luke 10:27-29, 2 Corinthians 3:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:17 - surely Galatians 5:17 - and these

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
`And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which [is] a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that [is] in the earth doth expire.
Genesis 7:4
for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'
Genesis 7:17
And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;
Genesis 7:20
fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;
Job 22:16
Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Luke 17:27
they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the commandment which was ordained to life,.... The law which promised a continuance of an immortal life to Adam, in case of perfect obedience to it; and which was appointed to the Israelites, that by the observation of it they might live in the land of Canaan, and in the quiet and full possession of their privileges and enjoyments; but was never ordained to eternal life, or that men should obtain that by their obedience to it; since eternal life is the free gift of God, without respect to any works of men; see Galatians 3:21; This same law, the apostle says,

I found to be unto death; as it was an occasion, through the vitiosity of nature, of stirring up sin in him, which brought forth fruit unto death; as it convinced him that he was a dead man and worthy of death; as it threatened him with it, and struck all his hopes of eternal life dead, and left him in this condition without giving him the least direction or assistance whereby to obtain life.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the commandment - The Law to which he had referred before.

Which was ordained to life - Which was intended to produce life, or happiness. Life here stands opposed to death, and means felicity, peace, eternal bliss; Note, John 3:36. When the apostle says that it was ordained to life, he probably has reference to the numerous passages in the Old Testament which speak of the Law in this manner, Leviticus 18:5, “Ye shall keep my statutes and my judgments; which if a man do, he shall live in them,” Ezekiel 20:11, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21; Ezekiel 18:9, Ezekiel 18:21. The meaning of these passages, in connection with this declaration of Paul, may be thus expressed:

  1. The Law is good; it has no evil, and is itself suited to produce no evil.

(2)If man was pure, and it was obeyed perfectly, it would produce life and happiness only. On those who have obeyed it in heaven, it has produced only happiness.

(3)For this it was ordained; it is adapted to it; and when perfectly obeyed, it produces no other effect. But,

  1. Man is a sinner; he has not obeyed it; and in such a case the Law threatens woe.

It crosses the inclination of man, and instead of producing peace and life, as it would on a being perfectly holy, it produces only woe and crime. The law of a parent may be good, and may be appointed to promote the happiness of his children; it may be admirably suited to it if all were obedient; yet in the family there may be one obstinate, self-willed, and stubborn child, resolved to indulge his evil passions, and the results to him would be woe and despair. The commandment, which was ordained for the good of the family, and which would be adapted to promote their welfare, he alone, of all the number, would find to be unto death.

I found - It was to me. It produced this effect.

Unto death - Producing aggravated guilt and condemnation, Romans 7:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 7:10. And the commandment — Meaning the law in general, which was ordained to life; the rule of righteousness teaching those statutes which if a man do he shall live in them, Leviticus 18:5, I found, by transgressing it, to be unto death; for it only presented the duty and laid down the penalty, without affording any strength to resist sin or subdue evil propensities.


 
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