Romans 7:5-13 For when we were in the flesh the sinful passions that arise through the Law were active in our members, so that we bore fruit to death.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ For when we were in the flesh the sinful passions that arise through the Law were active in our members, so that we bore fruit to death. ⁶ But now the Law has been made inoperative on us, since we have died to that by which we were held, so that we serve in newness of the spirit and not in oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Never. But I should not have come to know sin except through the Law. I should not have known lust if the Law had not said, "Thou shalt not lust." ⁸ Sin, taking occasion through the commandment, worked in me every lust. For apart from the Law sin is dead. ⁹ I was living once, apart from law. But when the commandment came, sin began to live and I died, ¹⁰ and the commandment which meant life was found to mean death. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me. ¹² So the Law is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good. ¹³ Did then what is good become death to me? Never. But sin, that it might appear sin, worked death in me through the good, in order that it might become beyond measure sinful.