“I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Romans 7 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.