Romans 7:7–16

⁷What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

⁸But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

⁹And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,

¹⁰And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the same was found to be unto death to me.

¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.

¹²Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and just and good.

¹³Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me: that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under sin.

¹⁵For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good which I will: but the evil which I hate, that I do.

¹⁶If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it is good.