Romans 7:7-11 ▼

7 What, then, will we say? The Law [is] sin? Let it not be! But I did not know sin except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the Law had not said:

8 “You will not covet”; and sin having received an opportunity, through the command, worked in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead.

9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, sin revived, and I died;

10 and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;

11 for sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, deceived me, and through it, slew [me],