Romans 7:5-7

Christian Standard Bible

⁵ For when we were in the flesh,^(A) the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us^[a](B) to bear 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 newness 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) But 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.^[b](G)