Rom 7:9-11 | JFB | STEP | 9. For I was alive without the law once-- "In the days of my ignorance, when, in this sense, a stranger to the law, I deemed myself a righteous man, and, as such, entitled to life at the hand of God." but when the commandment came-- forbidding all irregular desire; for the apostle sees in this the spirit of the whole law. sin revived-- "came to life"; in its malignity and strength it unexpectedly revealed itself, as if sprung from the dead. and I died-- "saw myself, in the eye of a law never kept and not to be kept, a dead man."

‏ Romans 7:9-11

9. For I was alive without the law once--"In the days of my ignorance, when, in this sense, a stranger to the law, I deemed myself a righteous man, and, as such, entitled to life at the hand of God."

but when the commandment came--forbidding all irregular desire; for the apostle sees in this the spirit of the whole law.

sin revived--"came to life"; in its malignity and strength it unexpectedly revealed itself, as if sprung from the dead.

and I died--"saw myself, in the eye of a law never kept and not to be kept, a dead man."

10-11. And--thus.

the commandment, which was, &c.--designed

to--give

life--through the keeping of it.

I found to be unto death--through breaking it.

For sin--my sinful nature.

taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me--or "seduced me"--drew me aside into the very thing which the commandment forbade.

and by it slew me--"discovered me to myself to be a condemned and gone man" (compare Ro 7:9, "I died").