World English Bible
"The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;"
— Romans 7:10, World English Bible
“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: ”
“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? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;
for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! 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.