^{6 Ref} But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

^{7 Ref} 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 Ref} But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.