Romans 7:5-13 For when we were in the flesh, sinful passions, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so as to bring forth fruit unto death.

Wesley⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ For when we were in the flesh, sinful passions, which were by the law, wrought in our members, so as to bring forth fruit unto death. ⁶ But now we are freed from the law, that whereby we were held being dead, so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. ⁷ What shall we say then? That the law is sin? God forbid. Yea, I should not have known sin, but for the law. I had not known lust, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. ⁸ But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of desire: for without the law sin was dead. ⁹ And I was once alive without the law; but when the commandment came, ¹⁰ sin revived, and I died, And the commandment, which was intended for life, this I found unto death. ¹¹ For sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. ¹² So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. ¹³ Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid: But sin: so that it appeared sin, working death in me by that which is good: so that sin might by the commandment become exceeding sinful.