Romans 7:7, Romans 7:14-17, 1 Timothy 1:9

⁷^aWhat shall we say then? Is the Law sin? ^bMay it never be! Rather, ^cI would not have come to know sin except ¹through the Law. For I would not have known about ²coveting if the Law had not said, “^dYou shall not ³covet.”

¹⁴For we know that the Law is ^aspiritual, but I am ^bfleshly, ^chaving been sold ¹^,^dinto bondage under sin. ¹⁵For what I am working out, ^aI do not understand; for I am not practicing ^bwhat I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. ¹⁶But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with ^athe Law, that it is good. ¹⁷So now, ^ano longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.

⁹knowing this, that ^alaw is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and ^brebellious, for the ^cungodly and sinners, for the unholy and ^dgodless, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,