Romans 7:7-12 What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire." ⁸ Sin found its rallying point in that command and stirred within me every sort of evil desire, for without law, sin is lifeless. ⁹ I was once alive when I had no connection with the law, but when the command came, sin revived, and then I died; ¹⁰ and so, in my case, the command which should have meant life turned out to mean death. ¹¹ For sin found its rallying point in that command and through it deceived me and killed me. ¹² So the law itself is holy, and its specific commands are holy, right, and good.