CLV(i)
7 What, then, shall we declare? That the law is sin? May it not be coming to that! But sin I knew not except through law. For besides, I had not been aware of coveting except the law said, "You shall not be coveting."
8 Now Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, produces in me all manner of coveting. For apart from law Sin is dead."
9 Now I lived, apart from law, once, yet at the coming of the precept Sin revives. Yet I died,
10 and it was found that, to me, the precept for life, this is for death."
11 For Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, deludes me, and through it, kills me."
12 So that the law, indeed, is holy, and the precept holy and just and good."
13 Became good, then, death to me? May it not be coming to that! But Sin, that it may be appearing Sin, is producing death to me through good, that Sin may become an inordinate sinner through the precept."
14 For we are aware that the law is spiritual, yet I am fleshly, having been disposed of under Sin."