Romans 7:9-15

⁹Once upon a time, without law, I was actually ‘alive’; but when the commandment came, the sin came to life and I died.

¹⁰Yes, the commandment that was to bring me life turned out to bring death.

¹¹Because the sin, grasping an opportunity through the commandment, completely deceived me, and used it to ‘kill’ me.

¹²So then, the law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

¹³So has what is good become death to me? Of course not! Rather the sin, that it might be exposed as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment the sin might become extremely sinful.

¹⁴We know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been ‘sold’ under sin

¹⁵—you see, I do not understand what I am doing: I do not practice what I want to do, but I do what I hate!