Rom 7:7-8, 1Cor 10:6-8, Eph 4:19, 1Pe 2:11 | 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 .

hCited from Ex. 32:6

iSee ch. 6:18; Acts 15:20

j Num. 25:1

k[Num. 25:9; Ps. 106:29]

l[Prov. 23:35]; 1 Tim. 4:2

m[1 Kgs. 21:25; Rom. 1:24, 26, 28]

nSee Lev. 25:23

o Rom. 13:14; Gal. 5:24

p James 4:1

Romans 7:7-8

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.” 8 But sin, ^cseizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. ^dFor apart from the law, sin lies dead.

1 Corinthians 10:6-8

6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as ^ethey did. 7 ^fDo not be idolaters ^gas some of them were; as it is written, ^h“The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8 ⁱWe must not indulge in sexual immorality ^jas some of them did, and ^ktwenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Ephesians 4:19

19 They ^lhave become callous and ^mhave given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

1 Peter 2:11

11 Beloved, I urge you ⁿas sojourners and exiles ^oto abstain from the passions of the flesh, ^pwhich wage war against your soul.