4. So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;
5. for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that [are] through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
6. and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.
7. What, 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.
9. And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
10. and the command that [is] for life, this was found by me for death;
11. for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay [me];
12. so that the law, indeed, [is] holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.
13. That 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,
14. for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;