5. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, through the Torah, were working in our members to bear fruit to death.
6. But now we have been released from the Torah, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in newness of Spirit and not in oldness of letter.
7. What, then, shall we say? Is the Torah sin? Let it not be! However, I did not know sin except through the Torah. For also the covetousness I knew not if the Torah had not said, “You shall not covet.”
8. But sin, having taken the occasion through the command, did work in me all sorts of covetousness. For apart from Torah sin is dead.
9. And I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the command came, the sin revived, and I died.
10. And the command which was to result in life, this I found to result in death.
11. For sin, having taken the occasion through the command, deceived me, and through it killed me.
12. So that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and righteous, and good.