KJVFor I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.
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…