7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.
8. Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.
9. So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10. And I found that the same commandment, which was unto life, was mortal unto me.
11. For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed me.
12. So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
13. Was then that which is good made death unto me? No, in no wise. But sin, to show itself sin by that which is good, worked death in me, making sin exceedingly sinful by the commandment.
14. For we now know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold unto subjection by sin.
15. For that which I do, I do not understand, and not even the good that I desire is what I do; but what I hate, that is what I do.