^{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:

^{8 Ref} `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.

^{9 Ref} And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;