Romans 7:5-13 For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death.

MNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ For while we were unspiritual, the sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were ever active in every part of our bodies, leading us to bear fruit unto death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust. ⁸ But when sin had gained a vantage-ground, by means of the commandment, it stirred up within me all manner of lust; for where there is no law, sin is dead. ⁹ Once I lived apart from the Law, myself; but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; ¹⁰ and the very commandment which should have meant life, this I found to mean death. ¹¹ For sin, when it had gained a vantage-ground through the commandment, beguiled me, and through it slew me. ¹² So then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Did then that which was good become for me death? Never! but sin did; that it might be manifest as sin, by that the unutterable malignity of sin might become plain through the commandment.