But sin, having taken the occasion through the command, did work in me all sorts of covetousness. For apart from Torah sin is dead.
thefts, greedy desires, wickednesses, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
“If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
“If I did not do among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin. But now they have both seen and have hated both Me and My Father,
Therefore by works of Torah no flesh shall be declared right before Him, for by the Torah is the knowledge of sin.
for the Torah works out wrath, for where there is no Torah there is no transgression.
And the Torah came in beside, so that the trespass would increase. But where sin increased, favour increased still more,
For sin, having taken the occasion through the command, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Therefore, has that which is good become death to me? Let it not be! But the sin, that sin might be manifest, was working death in me through what is good, so that sin through the command might become an exceedingly great Sinner.
And now, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me.
And I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the command came, the sin revived, and I died.
And the sting of death is the sin, and the power of the sin is the Torah.