ROMANS 7:7-11

⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

⁸but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.

⁹And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

¹⁰and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

¹¹for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.