Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Did the good, then, become death for me? Of course not! Sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin, worked death in me through the good, so that sin might become sinful beyond measure through the commandment.
For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them.