Romans 7:7 BBE

⁵  For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

⁶  But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

⁷  What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

⁸  But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

⁹  And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;