6 But now we are delivered from the law, having died to things in which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter of the law.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I did not know sin, except through the law. I would not have known coveting if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law sin is dead.
9 I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was intended for life, proved to be death in me.
11 For sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and killed me through it.
12 So then, the law is holy and the commandment is holy and just and good.