Romans 7:5-7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁵ For when we were in the flesh,^[a](A) the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us^[b](B) and bore fruit for death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way^[c] of the Spirit^(C) and not in the old letter of the law.

Sin’s Use of the Law

⁷ What should we say then?^(D) Is the law sin? Absolutely not!^(E) On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law.^(F) For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.^(G)[d]