^{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.

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