Williams(i)
7 What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."
8 Sin found its rallying point in that command and stirred within me every sort of evil desire, for without law, sin is lifeless.
9 I was once alive when I had no connection with the law, but when the command came, sin revived, and then I died;
10 and so, in my case, the command which should have meant life turned out to mean death.
11 For sin found its rallying point in that command and through it deceived me and killed me.
12 So the law itself is holy, and its specific commands are holy, right, and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, result in death to me? Of course not! It was sin that did it, so that it might show itself as sin, for by means of that good thing it brought about my death, so that through the command sin might appear surpassingly sinful.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made of flesh that is frail, sold into slavery to sin.