6. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were holden; 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 shewn to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; --that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.
14. For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
15. For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.
16. But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.
17. So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.