7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
8. But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
9. And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
10. and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!