Romans 7:9
King James VersionSource notes
“For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.”
Context
6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not the oldness of the letter.
7What shall we say then? the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin dead.
9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10And the commandment, which to life, I found unto death.
11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew
12Wherefore the law holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.