Romans 7:7

Overview - Romans 7
1	No law hath power over a man longer than he lives.
4	But we are dead to the law.
7	Yet is not the law sin;
12	but holy, just and good;
16	as I acknowledge, who am grieved because I cannot keep it.

Romans 7:7  (King James Version)
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.