Romans 7:7-9

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.1 8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of lust. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9For I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.