13 Therefore, did what is good become death to me? Absolutely not!(A) But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

The Problem of Sin in Us

14 For we know that the law is spiritual,(B) but I am of the flesh,[a] sold(C) as a slave under sin.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:14 Or unspiritual

13 Did ginomai that ho which is good agathos, then oun, become ginomai death thanatos to me egō? By no means ! But alla · ho sin hamartia, in order that hina it might be shown phainō to be sin hamartia, produced katergazomai death thanatos in me egō through dia that ho which is good agathos so that hina sin hamartia, through dia the ho commandment entolē, might be ginomai sinful hamartōlos beyond kata measure hyperbolē · ho 14 For gar we know oida that hoti the ho law nomos is eimi spiritual pneumatikos; but de I egō am eimi unspiritual sarkinos, sold pipraskō as a slave to hypo · ho sin hamartia.

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