Romans 7:7-12 - Knowledge Of Sin Comes Through The Law
7 What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet. 8 The command gave an impulse to sin, and sin resulted for me in all manner of covetous desire ??for sin, apart from law, is lifeless. 9 I lived at one time without law myself, but when the command came home to me, sin sprang to life and I died; 10 the command that meant life proved death for me. 11 The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me. 12 So the Law at any rate is holy, the command is holy, just, and for our good.