Romans 7:7-12 - Knowledge Of Sin Comes Through The Law
7 What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire. 8 But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, rendered active within me every evil desire. For without the law, sin was dead. 9 Indeed, I was alive with out the law, once; but when the commandment came, sin be came alive, and I died: 10 and the commandment, which was given for life, I found to be for death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12 Therefore, the law is holy, and the commandment, holy and just and good.