Romans 7:7–16

⁷What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust; ⁸but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead. ⁹But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died. ¹⁰And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death: ¹¹for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. ¹²So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ¹³Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin. ¹⁵For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise. ¹⁶But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.