^{5 Ref} for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

^{6 Ref} and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

^{7 Ref} What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: