⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

¹² Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

22 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.

23 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.