4. So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
5. For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;
6. but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
7. What 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;
8. but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.
9. But I was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but I died.