^7 (A)What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? ^(B)[a]Far from it! On the contrary, ^(C)I would not have come to know sin except ^[b]through the Law; for I would not have known about ^[c]coveting if the Law had not said, “^(D)You shall not ^[d]covet.”

¹⁶ However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with ^(A)the Law, that the Law is good.

⁸ But we know that ^(A)the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully,