Romans 7:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

New Living Translation
and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.

English Standard Version
The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.

Berean Study Bible
So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

New American Standard Bible
and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;

NASB 1995
and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;

NASB 1977
and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me;

Amplified Bible
And the very commandment which was intended to bring life, actually proved to bring death for me.

Christian Standard Bible
and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.

Contemporary English Version
and I died. The very command that was supposed to bring life to me, instead brought death.

Good News Translation
and I died. And the commandment which was meant to bring life, in my case brought death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
and I died. I found that the commandment which was intended to bring me life actually brought me death.

International Standard Version
and I died. I found that the very rule that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

NET Bible
and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

New King James Version
And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.

King James 2000 Bible
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

New Heart English Bible
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

World English Bible
The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

American King James Version
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death.

American Standard Version
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

A Faithful Version
And the commandment, which was meant to result in life, was found to be unto death for me;

Darby Bible Translation
And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:

English Revised Version
and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

Webster's Bible Translation
And the commandment which was ordained to life, I found to be to death.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And I was dead. And the very same commaundemet, which was ordeyned vnto lyfe, was founde to be vnto me an occasion of death.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And the very same commaundement that was geuen me vnto life, was founde to be vnto me on occasion of death.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And the very same comaundement which was ordeyned vnto lyfe was founde to be vnto me an occasion of deeth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;

Berean Literal Bible
and this commandment that was unto life proved to be death to me.

Young's Literal Translation
and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death;

Smith's Literal Translation
And the command was found to me which for life, this for death.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And the end result of the commandment that is for life was found by me to be for death.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

Catholic Public Domain Version
and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I found that commandment of life to be for death.

Lamsa Bible
And the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be for death.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
and the commandment, which was given for life, I found to be for death.

Godbey New Testament
and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, the same was unto death.

Haweis New Testament
And the commandment, which was for life, the same was found by me for death.

Mace New Testament
and the commandment which leads to life was instrumental to my ruin.

Weymouth New Testament
and, as it turned out, the very Commandment which was to bring me life, brought me death.

Worrell New Testament
And the commandment which was unto life was itself found by me to be unto death;

Worsley New Testament
and the commandment which was intended to life, I found to be unto death.
















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