Romans 7:7-12 - Knowledge Of Sin Comes Through The Law
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately. 8 But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead. 9 And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, 10 and the commandment which was for life was found to be for death. 11 For sin having taken occasion through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me. 12 The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.