KJV King James Version
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 7:12
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
WEB World English Bible
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
ASV American Standard Version
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Surrounding context — Romans 7
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which [was ordained] to life, I found [to be] unto death.
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].
12 Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
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1 Timothy 1:8But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully;Psalm 119:137TZADDI. Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, and upright [are] thy judgments.Psalm 19:7-12The law of the LORD [is] perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD [is] sure, making wise the simple.Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.Psalm 119:172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness.Nehemiah 9:13Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:Romans 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.Deuteronomy 4:8And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?Psalm 119:140Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.Psalm 119:127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.Romans 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.Romans 7:16If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.Psalm 119:86All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.Deuteronomy 10:12And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,Psalm 119:38Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who [is devoted] to thy fear.
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