Romans 7:9 WEB

⁷  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

⁸  But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

⁹  I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

¹⁰  The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

¹¹  for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.