Romans 7:5-8

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.