**7** What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” **8** But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. **9** I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. **10** And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. **11** For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.