Romans 7:7-12 What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet.

ACV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ What will we say then? The law is sin? May it not happen! Yet I did not know sin except through law. For likewise I would not have known lust, if the law did not say, Thou shall not covet. ⁸ But sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me every evil desire, for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹ And I was alive once apart from law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ And I found to me, the commandment being for life, this is for death. ¹¹ For sin, having taken opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. ¹² So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.