7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. |
8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. |
9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ... |
11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. |
12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. |