7. What shall we say then? Is the Torah sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the Torah. For I would not have known about coveting if the Torah had not said, “You shall not covet.”
8. But sin, taking an opportunity, worked in me through the commandment all kinds of coveting. For apart from the Torah, sin is dead.
9. Once I was alive apart from the Torah; but when the commandment came, sin came to life
10. and I died. The commandment meant for life was found to cause death.