Romans 7:12
Romans 7:8-12 The Message (MSG)
Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, 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. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Romans 7:12 King James Version (KJV)
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Romans 7:12 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:12 New Century Version (NCV)
So the law is holy, and the command is holy and right and good.
Romans 7:12 American Standard Version (ASV)
So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
Romans 7:12 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
Romans 7:12 New King James Version (NKJV)
Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Romans 7:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Romans 7:12 New Living Translation (NLT)
But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.