Romans 7:7-12

Darby Translation

⁷ What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

⁸ but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin [was] dead.

⁹ But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.

¹⁰ And the commandment, which [was] for life, was found, [as] to me, itself [to be] unto death:

¹¹ for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew [me].

¹² So that the law indeed [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.