and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:
So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.
and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death;
And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:
Romans — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
1. Know ye not, etc. Let the general proposition be that the law was given to men for no other end but to regulate the present life, and that it belongs not to those who are dead: to this he afterwards subjoins this truth -- that we are dead to…