Romans 7:2-10

²For the married woman is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

³So then, while her husband is living, if she lives with another man, she will be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so she is not an adulteress if she lives with another man.

⁴Therefore, my brothers, you were also made dead to the law through the body of Christ. This is so that you could be joined to another, that is, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might produce fruit for God.

⁵For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

⁶But now we have been released from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. This is so that we might serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

⁷What will we say then? Is the law itself sin? May it never be. However, I would never have known sin, if it were not through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law said, “You must not covet.”

⁸But sin took the opportunity through the commandment and brought about every lust in me. For without the law, sin is dead.

⁹At one time I was alive without the law, but when the commandment came, sin regained life, and I died.

¹⁰The commandment that was to bring life turned out to be death for me.