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   Law and sin

7,7  Shall we say, then, that the Law itself is sinful?

     Of course not!  But it was the Lawthat made me know

     what sin is If the Law had not said, " Do not desire

     what belongs to someone else," I would not have known

     such a desire.

8.   But by means of that commandment sin found its chance to

     stir up all kinds of selfsh desires in me. Apart from

     law, sin is a dead thing.

9.   I myself was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment

     came, sin sprang to life,

10.   and I died. And the commandment which was meant to bring

     life, in my case brought death.

11.   Sin found its chance, and by means of the commandment

     it deceived me and killed me.

12.   So then, the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is

     holy right, and good.

13.   But dose this mean that what is good caused my death?

      By no means! It was sin that did it; by using what is good,

      sin brought death to me,in order that its true nature as

      sin might be revealed. And so, by means of the commandment

      sin is shown to be even more terribly sinful.