Romans 7:9-13

⁹At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,i

¹⁰and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead.

¹¹Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me.

¹²But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.j

¹³But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.