^{7 Ref} What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

^{8 Ref} but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin `is' dead.

^{9 Ref} And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;

^{10 Ref} and the commandment, which `was' unto life, this I found `to be' unto death:

^{11 Ref} for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

^{12 Ref} So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.