So I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life actually brought death.

Leviticus 18:5
Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

Luke 10:28
"You have answered correctly," Jesus said. "Do this and you will live."

Romans 4:15
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Romans 7:9
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

Romans 10:5
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: "The man who does these things will live by them."

Galatians 3:12
The law, however, is not based on faith; on the contrary, "The man who does these things will live by them."

And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be to death.