Romans 7:7-12

21st Century King James Version

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I would not have known sin, but through the law; for I would not have known lust, except that the law had said, “Thou shalt not covet.”

⁸ But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence; for without the law sin was dead.

⁹ For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;

¹⁰ and the commandment, which was ordained to bring life, I found to be unto death.

¹¹ For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me and by it slew me.

¹² Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.