Romans 7:7-14 What shall we say then? That the law is sin? God forbid. Yea, I should not have known sin, but for the law. I had not known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

Wesley⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ What shall we say then? That the law is sin? God forbid. Yea, I should not have known sin, but for the law. I had not known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. ⁸ But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of desire: for without the law sin was dead. ⁹ And I was once alive without the law; but when the commandment came, ¹⁰ sin revived, and I died, And the commandment, which was intended for life, this I found unto death. ¹¹ For sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. ¹² So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid: But sin: so that it appeared sin, working death in me by that which is good: so that sin might by the commandment become exceeding sinful. ¹⁴ We know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin.