Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
In context
7What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Never. And yet I would not have known sin except through the law. I would not have known craving if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8But sin, seizing its chance through the commandment, worked up in me every kind of craving; for apart from the law, sin is dead. 9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10The very commandment that was meant for life turned out, in my case, to be for death. 11For sin, seizing its chance through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
