45:007:007 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust,
except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
45:007:008 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all
manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
45:007:009 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment
came, sin revived, and I died.
45:007:010 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be
unto death.
45:007:011 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and
by it slew me.
45:007:012 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just,
and good.
45:007:013 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
45:007:014 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold
under sin.
45:007:015 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I
not; but what I hate, that do I.
45:007:016 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law
that it is good.