7 What, then, shall we say? the law 'is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:
8 'Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.
9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
10 and the command that 'is' for life, this was found by me for death;
11 for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay 'me';
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