Romans 7:7-14 Then what shall we conclude? That the Law is sin? Certainly not! Yet, if it had not been for the Law, I should never have learned what sin was; I should not have known what it was to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ Then what shall we conclude? That the Law is sin? Certainly not! Yet, if it had not been for the Law, I should never have learned what sin was; I should not have known what it was to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet." ⁸ That command gave sin an opening, and it led me to all sorts of covetous ways, for sin is lifeless without law. ⁹ I was once alive and without law, but when the command came, sin awoke and then I died; ¹⁰ and the command that should have meant life in my case proved to mean death. ¹¹ The command gave sin an opening and sin deceived me and killed me with it. ¹² So the Law itself is holy, and each command is holy, just, and good. ¹³ Did what was good, then, prove the death of me? Certainly not! It was sin that did so, so that it might be recognized as sin, because even through something that was good it effected my death, so that through the command it might appear how immeasurably sinful sin was. ¹⁴ We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am physical, sold into slavery to sin.