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Rom 7:9 — For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

For I		Mat 19:20; Luk 10:25-29; Luk 15:29; Luk 18:9-12,21; Phl 3:5,6
without		Mat 5:21; etc.; Mat 15:4-6; Mar 7:8-13
but		Rom 3:19,20; Rom 10:5; Psa 40:12; Gal 3:10; Jam 2:10,11
sin		Rom 7:21-23; Rom 8:7
and I died		Rom 7:4,6; *marg:; Rom 7:11; Rom 3:20; Gal 2:19

Correlating Passages

For I

	Mat 19:20	The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
	Luk 10:25	And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
	Luk 10:26	He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
	Luk 10:27	And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
	Luk 10:28	And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
	Luk 10:29	But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
	Luk 15:29	And he answering said to [his] father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
	Luk 18:9	And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
	Luk 18:10	Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
	Luk 18:11	The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men [are], extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
	Luk 18:12	I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
	Luk 18:21	And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
	Phl 3:5	Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, [of] the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
	Phl 3:6	Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

without

	Mat 5:21	Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
	Mat 15:4	For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
	Mat 15:5	But ye say, Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
	Mat 15:6	And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
	Mar 7:8	For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, [as] the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
	Mar 7:9	And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
	Mar 7:10	For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
	Mar 7:11	But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free].
	Mar 7:12	And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
	Mar 7:13	Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

but

	Rom 3:19	Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
	Rom 3:20	Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.
	Rom 10:5	For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
	Psa 40:12	For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
	Gal 3:10	For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
	Jam 2:10	For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.
	Jam 2:11	For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

sin

	Rom 7:21	I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
	Rom 7:22	For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
	Rom 7:23	But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
	Rom 8:7	Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

and I died

	Rom 7:4	Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
	Rom 7:6	But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.
	Rom 7:11	For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
	Rom 3:20	Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.
	Gal 2:19	For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

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