Sin taking occasion. . .Sin, or concupiscence, which is called sin, because it 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 inward man: 7:23. But I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind and captivating me in the law of sin that is in my members. 7:24. Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 7:25. The grace of God, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with the mind serve the law of God: but with the flesh, the law of sin. Romans Chapter 8