⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

¹² Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.