If It Had Not Been for the Law

Romans 7:7

“What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”” -Romans 7:7

Again Paul anticipates the potential error of thought in his imagined interlocutor and responds with another By no means! If …