Romans 7:2-10

²For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.

³So then, if she should ‘marry’ another man while her husband is living, she will be labeled an adulteress; but if the husband should die, she is free from that law, not being an adulteress if she marries another man.

⁴Therefore, 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.

⁵Because 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.

⁶But 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.

⁷So 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.”

⁸But the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. Now without the law sin is dead.

⁹Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died.

¹⁰Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death.