Apostol § 94

Brethren, I speak to them that know the law, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the Body of Christ, that you may be married to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we then say? Is the law sin? God forbid! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known lust unless the law had said, “Thou shalt not covet.” But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And the commandment, which promised life, instead, I found, brought death. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Did that which is good, then, bring death unto me? God forbid! But sin, that it might appear sin, produced death in me through that which is good, so that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.