Romans 7:7 CPDV

⁵  For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

⁶  But now we have been released from the law of death, by which we were being held, so that now we may serve with a renewed spirit, and not in the old way, by the letter.

⁷  What should we say next? Is the law sin? Let it not be so! But I do not know sin, except through the law. For example, I would not have known about coveting, unless the law said: 'You shall not covet.'

⁸  But sin, receiving an opportunity through the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

⁹  Now I lived for some time apart from the law. But when the commandment had arrived, sin was revived,