Romans 7:7-9

7What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! But I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.

8And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.

9Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life again