Romans 7:7-10 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! I had not known sin except through the law. For I had not known coveting except the law had said: You should not covet.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! I had not known sin except through the law. For I had not known coveting except the law had said: You should not covet. ⁸ But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead. ⁹ I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰ The commandment, which was to life, this I found to be to death.