Rom 7:7-12

Acquaintance with Sin Through the Law. 7^* What then can we say? That the law is sin? Of course not!^* Yet I did not know sin except through the law, and I did not know what it is to covet except that the law said, “You shall not covet.”^d 8But sin, finding an opportunity in the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetousness. Apart from the law sin is dead.^e 9I once lived outside the law, but when the commandment came, sin became alive; 10then I died, and the commandment that was for life turned out to be death for me.^f 11For sin, seizing an opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and through it put me to death.^g 12So then the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.^h