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New Living Translation

Romans 7:12

But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Good and Evil;   Justification;   Law;   Scofield Reference Index - Flesh;   Law of Moses;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   Law;   Word;   Word, God's;   The Topic Concordance - Carnality;   Commandment;   Goodness;   Holiness;   Justice;   Law;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Law of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Goodness;   Law;   Sin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Command, Commandment;   Death, Mortality;   Galatians, Theology of;   Law;   Legalism;   Paul the Apostle;   Sanctification;   Sin;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Law;   Sin;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Law;   Sin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Custodian;   Death;   Good;   Law, Ten Commandments, Torah;   Romans, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Justification, Justify;   Law;   Man;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Commandment;   Goodness (Human);   Holiness Purity;   Interpretation;   Law;   Liberty;   Presence (2);   Regeneration;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Righteousness;   Romans Epistle to the;   Sin;   Sin (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Holiness;   Justification;   Law in the New Testament;   Pauline Theology;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Yeẓer Ha-Ra';  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Now the law is holy, and the command is holy and right and good.
Revised Standard Version
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore the lawe is holy and the commaundement holy iust and good.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the mitzvah holy, and righteous, and good.
International Standard Version
So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, just, and good.Psalm 19:8; 1 Timothy 1:8;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
New Century Version
So the law is holy, and the command is holy and right and good.
Update Bible Version
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
English Standard Version
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
World English Bible
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Weymouth's New Testament
So that the Law itself is holy, and the Commandment is holy, just and good.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the lawe is hooli, and the comaundement is hooli, and iust, and good.
English Revised Version
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Berean Standard Bible
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
Contemporary English Version
Still, the Law and its commands are holy and correct and good.
Amplified Bible
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
American Standard Version
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Bible in Basic English
But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
Complete Jewish Bible
So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good.
Darby Translation
So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Etheridge Translation
The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Murdock Translation
Wherefore, the law is holy; and the commandment is holy, and righteous, and good.
King James Version (1611)
Wherefore the Law is holy, and the Commandement holy, and iust, and good.
New Life Bible
The Law is holy. Each one of the Laws is holy and right and good.
New Revised Standard
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good.
George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So that, the law, indeed, is holy, and the commandment, holy, and righteous and good.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and just and good.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore the lawe is holy, and the commaundement holy, & iust and good.
Good News Translation
So then, the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.
Christian Standard Bible®
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
King James Version
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Lexham English Bible
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Literal Translation
So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Young's Literal Translation
so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The lawe in dede is holy, and the commaundement holy, iust and good.
Mace New Testament (1729)
wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
New English Translation
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
New King James Version
Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Simplified Cowboy Version
There is nothing wrong with the Code. It is good and holy.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Legacy Standard Bible
So, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

Contextual Overview

7 Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, "You must not covet." 8 But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power. 9 At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life, 10 and I died. So I discovered that the law's commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead. 11 Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me. 12 But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good. 13 But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God's good commands for its own evil purposes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the law: Romans 7:14, Romans 3:31, Romans 12:2, Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 10:12, Nehemiah 9:13, Psalms 19:7-12, Psalms 119:38, Psalms 119:86, Psalms 119:127, Psalms 119:137, Psalms 119:140, Psalms 119:172, 1 Timothy 1:8

the commandment: Romans 7:7

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:3 - right in the sight Job 33:27 - right Psalms 19:8 - is pure Psalms 33:4 - the word Psalms 111:8 - are done Psalms 119:47 - which Psalms 119:62 - thy Psalms 119:128 - I esteem Proverbs 30:5 - word Isaiah 42:21 - he will Hosea 8:12 - written Hosea 14:9 - for Romans 7:16 - I consent 2 Corinthians 3:7 - was Ephesians 6:1 - for James 1:25 - the perfect James 4:11 - speaketh evil of the law 2 Peter 2:21 - holy 1 John 5:3 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will make the rains pour down on the earth. And it will rain for forty days and forty nights, until I have wiped from the earth all the living things I have created."
Genesis 7:17
For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.
Exodus 24:18
Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain. He remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Deuteronomy 9:9
This happened when I was on the mountain receiving the tablets of stone inscribed with the words of the covenant that the Lord had made with you. I was there for forty days and forty nights, and all that time I ate no food and drank no water.
Deuteronomy 9:18
"Then, as before, I threw myself down before the Lord for forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water because of the great sin you had committed by doing what the Lord hated, provoking him to anger.
Deuteronomy 10:10
"As for me, I stayed on the mountain in the Lord 's presence for forty days and nights, as I had done the first time. And once again the Lord listened to my pleas and agreed not to destroy you.
1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank, and the food gave him enough strength to travel forty days and forty nights to Mount Sinai, the mountain of God.
Matthew 4:2
For forty days and forty nights he fasted and became very hungry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore the law is holy,.... This is a conclusion or inference drawn from the preceding discourse, in commendation of the law; that standing clear of any charge or imputation of sin, as being the cause of it. This epithet the apostle gives to the law is what the Jews frequently give it; worthy are the Israelites, say they h,

"to whom is given אורייתא קדישא "the holy law"; in which they study day and night.''

By "the law" is meant the whole body of the precepts of it in general; and by

the commandment, either the same, or everyone of the commandments in particular, and especially that which is cited, "thou shall not covet". Some have thought that the three properties of it design the threefold division of the law; and suppose that by that which is "holy" is meant the ceremonial law, which sanctified to the purifying of the flesh; by that which is "just", the judicial law, which pointed out to the Jewish commonwealth what was right and wrong; and by that which is "good", the moral law in all its precepts: but nothing is more certain, than that the moral law is only spoken of in this context, which may be said to be

holy, because of its author, the holy God, from whom nothing can come but what is holy; and because of the matter of it, it is a transcript of the holy nature of God, a declaration of his holy will; it requires holiness both of heart and life; it forbids whatever is unholy, and commands nothing but what is holy; it teaches men to live holy, sober, righteous, and godly lives. It may be truly called

just, or righteous, as it demands perfect obedience to all its precepts, or it will not admit of it as a righteousness; as it pronounces guilty, curses and condemns for every disobedience of it; as it deals impartially with persons the transgressors of it; and as it acquits believers upon the foot of the righteousness of Christ, the fulfilling end of it. It is rightly called

good, from the author of it, God, from whom every good thing comes, and nothing else; from the matter of it, and from the use of it both to saints and sinners.

h Zohar in Gen. fol. 48. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore - So that. The conclusion to which we come is, that the Law is not to be blamed, though these are its effects under existing circumstances. The source of all this is not the Law, but the corrupt nature of man. The Law is good; and yet the position of the apostle is true, that it is not adapted to purify the heart of fallen man. Its tendency is to excite increased guilt, conflict, alarm, and despair. This verse contains an answer to the question in Romans 7:7, “Is the law sin?”

Is holy - Is not sin; compare Romans 7:7. It is pure in its nature.

And the commandment - The word “commandment” is here synonymous with the Law. It properly means what is enjoined.

Holy - Pure.

Just - Righteous in its claims and penalties. It is not unequal in its exactions.

Good - In itself good; and in its own nature tending to produce happiness. The sin and condemnation of the guilty is not the fault of the Law. If obeyed, it would produce happiness everywhere. See a most beautiful description of the law of God in Psalms 19:7-11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 7:12. Wherefore the law is holy — As if he had said, to soothe his countrymen, to whom he had been showing the absolute insufficiency of the law either to justify or save from sin: I do not intimate that there is any thing improper or imperfect in the law as a rule of life: it prescribes what is holy, just, and good; for it comes from a holy, just, and good God. The LAW, which is to regulate the whole of the outward conduct, is holy; and the COMMANDMENT, Thou shalt not covet, which is to regulate the heart, is not less so. All is excellent and pure; but it neither pardons sin nor purifies the heart; and it is because it is holy, just, and good, that it condemns transgressors to death.


 
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