Readings for Lent and Easter
7 [a]What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? God forbid. Nay, I knew not sin, but by the Law: for I had not known [b]lust, except the Law had said, (A)Thou shalt not lust.
8 But sin took an occasion by the commandment, and wrought in me all manner of concupiscence: for without the Law sin is [c]dead.
9 [d]For I once was alive, without the [e]law: but when the commandment [f]came, sin revived,
10 But I [g]died: and the same commandment which was ordained unto life, was found to be unto me unto death.
11 For sin took occasion by the commandment, and deceived me, and thereby slew me.
12 [h]Wherefore the Law is (B)holy, and that [i]commandment is holy, and just, and good.
13 [j]Was that then which is good, [k]made death unto me? God forbid: but sin, that it might [l]appear sin, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sin might be [m]out of measure sinful by the commandment.
14 [n]For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.
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