For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression ¹  either.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I ¹  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 ²  if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” ³ 

Now the law came in ¹  so that the transgression ²  may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. ¹ 

For whenever the Gentiles, ¹  who do not have the law, do by nature ²  the things required by the law, ³  these who do not have the law are a law to themselves.

Or do you not know, brothers and sisters ¹  (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person ²  as long as he lives?

For the law of the life-giving Spirit ¹  in Christ Jesus has set you ²  free from the law of sin and death.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under ¹  the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.