WPNT(i)
4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.
5 Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death.
6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what was gripping us, so as to slave in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter.
7 So what shall we say then? Is the law sin? Of course not! Indeed, I would not have come to know the sin except through the law: I would not have recognized covetousness if the law had not said, “You must not covet”.
8 But the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. Now without the law sin is dead.
9 Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died.
10 Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death.
11 Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me.