Rom 7:9-10 | PNT | STEP | For I was alive without the law once . "Without law". It would be much better if the translators would omit the article where Paul did not use it. Paul was alive, that is, was unconscious of condemnation, once. His conscience did not trouble him. He was like the young Ruler who said of the commandments: "All these have I kept from my youth up" ( ). "As touching the righteousness which is of the law", he was "blameless" ( ). But when the commandment came , when he realized that it required a heart service as well as an outward service, then sin revived . The dormant sin was brought to light when restraints came. I died . Realized that I was a sinner; was convicted of sin. It is possible that reference is made to some supreme struggle. Perhaps in the stern persecution of the saints he was struggling for the righteousness of the law. Perhaps it was when Christ said, "I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest" ( ), that he first realized that "Christ was the end of the law" ( ), and he died.

‏ Romans 7:9-10

For I was alive without the law once. "Without law". It would be much better if the translators would omit the article where Paul did not use it. Paul was alive, that is, was unconscious of condemnation, once. His conscience did not trouble him. He was like the young Ruler who said of the commandments: "All these have I kept from my youth up" (Mt 19:20 Mr 10:20 Lu 18:21). "As touching the righteousness which is of the law", he was "blameless" (Php 3:6).

But when the commandment came, when he realized that it required a heart service as well as an outward service, then sin revived. The dormant sin was brought to light when restraints came.

I died. Realized that I was a sinner; was convicted of sin. It is possible that reference is made to some supreme struggle. Perhaps in the stern persecution of the saints he was struggling for the righteousness of the law. Perhaps it was when Christ said, "I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest" (Ac 22:8), that he first realized that "Christ was the end of the law" (Ro 10:4), and he died. And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life. The commandments had a promise of Life. See Ro 10:5.

I found [to be] unto death. When he found that, instead of keeping the commandments, he had broken them, he realized he was under condemnation.