4. And so, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law, through the body of Christ, so that you may be another one who has risen from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
5. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.
6. But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.
7. What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: "You shall not covet."
8. But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
9. Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,
10. and I died. And the commandment, which was unto life, was itself found to be unto death for me.
11. For sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, seduced me, and, through the law, sin killed me.
12. And so, the law itself is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
13. Then was what is good made into death for me? Let it not be so! But rather sin, in order that it might be known as sin by what is good, wrought death in me; so that sin, through the commandment, might become sinful beyond measure.
14. For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, having been sold under sin.
15. For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do.