5. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
6. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein 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? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
8. but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.
9. And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;
10. and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:
11. for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
12. So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
13. Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; --that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.