⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. 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.

¹⁵ Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

¹³ (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

²⁰ Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: