Romans 7:5-17

5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions that came through the Torah were working in our body parts to bear fruit for death.

6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what confined us, so that we serve in the new way of the Ruach and not in the old way of the letter.

7What shall we say then? Is the Torah sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the Torah. For I would not have known about coveting if the Torah had not said, “You shall not covet.”

8But sin, taking an opportunity, worked in me through the commandment all kinds of coveting. For apart from the Torah, sin is dead.

9Once I was alive apart from the Torah; but when the commandment came, sin came to life

10and I died. The commandment meant for life was found to cause death.

11Sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.

12So then, the Torah is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

13Therefore did that which is good become death to me? May it never be! Rather it was sin working death in me—through that which is good—so that sin might be shown to be sin, and that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14For we know that the Torah is spiritual; but I am of the flesh, sold to sin.

15For I do not understand what I am doing—for what I do not want, this I practice; but what I hate, this I do.

16But if I do what I do not want to do, then I agree with the Torah—that it is good.

17So now it is no longer I doing it, but sin dwelling in me.