Catholic Public Domain Version
"and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me. "
— Romans 7:10, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.”
“and the commandment, which was unto life, this 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 should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: “You shall not covet.”
But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,
and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.
For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.
And so, the law itself is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
Then was what is good made into death for me? Let it not be so! But rather sin, in order that it might be known as sin by what is good, wrought death in me; so that sin, through the commandment, might become sinful beyond measure.