Romans 7:5-7

English Standard Version

⁵ For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work ^(A)in our members ^(B)to bear fruit for death. ⁶ But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the ^(C)new way of ^(D)the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.^[a]

The Law and Sin

⁷ What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, ^(E)I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if ^(F)the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”