6. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were holden; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
8. but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin is dead.
9. And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died;