Romans 7:7

7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”

Romans 7:9

7:9 And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive