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.