American Standard Version
"and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death: "
— Romans 7:10, American Standard Version
“And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.”
“The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;”
“and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!”
“And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.”
“And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:”
“And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.”
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:
for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;—that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.