⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

¹³ Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

¹⁶ If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.

⁴ That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

²¹ Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

⁸ But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

¹⁵ Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.