Romans 7:9-15

⁹I used to live without realizing what the law really meant, but when I understood the implications of that commandment, then sin came back to life, and I died.

¹⁰I discovered that the very commandment that was meant to bring life brought death instead,

¹¹because sin found a way through the commandment to deceive me, and used the commandment to kill me!

¹²However, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, right, and good.

¹³Now would something that is good kill me? Of course not! But sin shows itself to be sin by using good to cause my death. So by means of the commandment, it's revealed how evil sin really is.

¹⁴We realize that the law is spiritual; but I'm all-too-human, a slave to sin.

¹⁵I really don't understand what I'm doing. I do the things I don't want to do, and what I hate doing, that's what I do!