Rom 7:7, 14 | ESV | STEP | What then shall we say ? That the law is sin ? By no means ! Yet if it had not been for the law , I would not have known sin . For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said , You shall not covet .

c 1 Kgs. 21:20, 25; 2 Kgs. 17:17; Isa. 50:1; 52:3

Romans 7:7

The Law and Sin

7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, ^aI would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if ^bthe law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

Romans 7:14

14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, ^csold under sin.