the law sin # 45_ROM_05_13 # [For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. the law sin # 45_ROM_07_07 # 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. the law sin # 45_ROM_07_08 # But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.