^{6 Ref} But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

^{7 Ref} What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

^{8 Ref} But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.