Romans 7:9 BBE

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;

¹⁰  And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:

¹¹  For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.