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What shall we say, then?1 Is the law sin? Certainly not!2 Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law.3 For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."a48
But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment,5 produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.69
Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
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