Romans 7:9 Cross References - Moffatt

⁹ I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died;

²¹ You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence, ²² whoever maligns his brother must come before the San hedrin, whoever curses his brother must go to the fire of Gehenna.' But I tell you, whoever is angry with his brother [without cause] will be sentenced by God. ²³ So if you remember, even when offering your gift at the altar, that your brother has any grievance against you, ²⁴ leave your gift at the very altar and go away; first be reconciled to your brother, then come back and offer your gift. ²⁵ Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison; ²⁶ truly I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last halfpenny of your debt.

⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' ⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

²⁰ The young man said, "I have observed all these. What more is wanting?"

⁸ You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition. ⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition. ¹⁰ Thus, Moses said, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ¹¹ But you say that if a man tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service, but it is Korban' (that is, dedicated to God), ¹² he is exempt, so you hold, from doing anything for his father or mother. ¹³ That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

²⁵ Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?" ²⁶ He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?" ²⁷ He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole strength, and with your whole mind. Also your neighbour as yourself." ²⁸ "A right answer!" said Jesus; "do that and you will live." ²⁹ Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

²⁹ but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

⁹ He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else. ¹⁰ "Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer. ¹² Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

²¹ He said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth."

¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; ²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

⁴ It is the same in your case, my brothers. The crucified body of Christ made you dead to the Law, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we might be fruitful to God.

⁶ but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.

¹¹ The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me.

²¹ So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage; ²² I cordially agree with God's law, so far as my inner self is concerned, ²³ but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

⁷ For the interests of the flesh are hostile to God; they do not yield to the law of God (indeed they cannot).

⁵ Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

¹⁹ For through the Law I died to the Law that I might live for God;

¹⁰ Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day after birth; I belonged to the race of Israel, to the tribe of Benjamin; I was the Hebrew son of Hebrew parents, a Pharisee as regards the Law, ⁶ in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness.

¹⁰ For whoever obeys the whole of the Law and only makes a single slip, is guilty of everything. ¹¹ He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery but if you kill, you have transgressed the Law.