Romans 7:7–16

⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? ^lGod forbid. Nay, ^mI had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, ⁿThou shalt not covet. ⁸But sin, ^mtaking ^ooccasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For ^pqwithout the law sin was dead. ⁹For I was alive ^qwithout the law once: but when the commandment came, sin ^rrevived, and I died. ¹⁰And the commandment, ^swhich was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. ¹¹For sin, taking ^ooccasion by the commandment, ^tdeceived me, and by it slew me. ¹²Wherefore ^uthe law is holy, and the commandment holy, and ^xjust, and ^ygood. ¹³Was then that which is good made death unto me? ^lGod forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

¹⁴For we know that the law is ^zspiritual: but I am ^zcarnal, ^asold under sin. ¹⁵For that which I do I allow not: for ^bwhat I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. ¹⁶If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto ^cthe law that it is good.