7 [ref]So what will we say then? Say that the law is sin? Not on your life! I wouldn’t have known what sin was if it wasn’t for the Law. For example, I wouldn’t have known what coveting was if the Law hadn’t told me not to covet. 8 But sin took the opportunity from that commandment to produce covetousness in me, because sin would be dead apart from the Law. 9 For a time I was living without the Law, but once the commandment came then sin revived 10 and I died, and I discovered that the commandment which should lead to life, led to death. 11 [ref]Sin deceived me when the commandment gave it an opportunity, and in doing so, it killed me.

12 Now the Law is indeed holy and the commandment is holy and righteous and good, 13 so did what is good turn into death? Not on your life! Rather it was the good Law that allowed me to see sin as sin and a producer of death