Rom.7.9

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Rom.7.9

and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it.

Rom.7.9

Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Rom.7.9

I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.