What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin (is) dead.
And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
and the commandment, which (was) unto life, this I found (to be) unto death: