rsv Romans:7:7-12-14
rsv@Romans:7:7 @ 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."
rsv@Romans:7:8 @ But sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, wrought in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the law sin lies dead.
rsv@Romans:7:9 @ I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died;
rsv@Romans:7:10 @ the very commandment which promised life proved to be death to me.
rsv@Romans:7:11 @ For sin, finding opportunity in the commandment, deceived me and by it killed me.
rsv@Romans:7:12 @ So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.