Romans 7:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ But now we are loosed from the law of death, wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

⁷ What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid. But I do not know sin, but by the law; for I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet.

⁸ But sin taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.