Romans 7:7-11 ▼

7 What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness, unless the law had said, |Do not covet.|

8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

9 I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died.

10 The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

11 for sin, taking the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.