Romans 7:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

⁸ But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

⁹ And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived,