KJV:
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.
NASB:
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."
KJV:
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
NASB:
But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead.
KJV:
For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
NASB:
I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;
KJV:
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
NASB:
So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
KJV:
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
NASB:
For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.
KJV:
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
NASB:
But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.
KJV:
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
NASB:
I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.
KJV:
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
NASB:
For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
KJV:
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
NASB:
but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.