Rom 7:7-9, Gal 2:19 | 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 .

Romans 7:7-9

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. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.

Galatians 2:19

19 For through the law I ^edied to the law, so that I might ^flive to God.