Romans 7:7-12

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁷ ¶ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.

⁸ Then sin, when there was occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For without the law sin was as if it were dormant.

⁹ So that without the law I lived for some time; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

¹⁰ And I found that the same commandment, which was unto life, was mortal unto me.

¹¹ For sin, having had occasion, deceived me by the commandment and by it killed me.

¹² So the law is truly holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.