rsv Romans:7:7-12-14 SEEK
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What then shall we say ?
That the law is sin ?
By no means !
Yet ,
if it had not been for the law ,
I should not have known sin .
I should not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said , "
You shall not covet ."
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But sin ,
finding opportunity in the commandment ,
wrought in me all kinds of covetousness .
Apart from the law sin lies dead .
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I was once alive apart from the law ,
but when the commandment came ,
sin revived and I died ;
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the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me .
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For sin ,
finding opportunity in the commandment ,
deceived me and by it killed me .
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So the law is holy ,
and the commandment is holy and just and good .