is from sin, and leads to sin, which was asleep before, was
weakened by the prohibition: the law not being the cause thereof, nor
properly giving occasion to it: but occasion being taken by our corrupt
nature to resist the commandment laid upon us.

7:9. And I lived some time without the law. But when the commandment
came, sin revived,

7:10. And I died. And the commandment that was ordained to life, the
same was found to be unto death to me.

7:11. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it
killed me.

7:12. Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and
just and good.

7:13. Was that then which is good made death unto me? God forbid! But
sin, that it may appear sin, by that which is good, wrought death in me:
that sin, by the commandment, might become sinful above measure.

That it may appear sin, or that sin may appear, viz... To be the monster
it is, which is even capable to take occasion from that which is good,
to work death.

7:14. For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am carnal, sold under
sin.

7:15. For that which I work, I understand not. For I do not that good
which I will: but the evil which I hate, that I do.

I do not that good which I will, etc... The apostle here describes the
disorderly motions of passion and concupiscence; which oftentimes in us
get the start of reason: and by means of which even good men suffer in
the inferior appetite what their will abhors: and are much hindered in
the accomplishment of the desires of their spirit and mind. But these
evil motions, (though they are called the law of sin, because they come
from original sin, and violently tempt and incline to sin,) as long as
the will does not consent to them, are not sins, because they are not
voluntary.

7:16. If then I do that which I will not, I consent to the law, that it
is good.

7:17. Now then it is no more I that do it: but sin that dwelleth in me.

7:18. For I know that there dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my
flesh, that which is good. For to will is present with me: but to
accomplish that which is good, I find not.

7:19. For the good which I will, I do not: but the evil which I will
not, that I do.

7:20. Now if I do that which I will not, it is no more I that do it: but
sin that dwelleth in me.

7:21. I find then a law, that when I have a will to do good, evil is
present with me.

7:22. For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the