Romans 7:7–16

⁷What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: ⁸‘Thou shalt not covet;’ and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness—for apart from law sin is dead. ⁹And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; ¹⁰and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death; ¹¹for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay me; ¹²so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command.

¹⁴For we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin; ¹⁵for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do. ¹⁶And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good,