Romans 2:12
2:12 For all who have sinned apart from the law
will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
Romans 7:8-9
7:8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires.
For apart from the law, sin is dead.
7:9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive
Romans 7:1
The Believer’s Relationship to the Law
7:1 Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?
Colossians 1:21
Paul’s Goal in Ministry
1:21 And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,