Romans 7:5-8

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.