The key passage (7.7–25) is framed by two questions: ‘Is the law sin?’ (7.7) and ‘Was the good [law] responsible for my death?’ (7.13). The answer to the first is: no, but ‘Sin’ used the good law to bring death. To the second the answer is: no, but Torah brought ‘Sin’ out in its full colours through the moral confusion of those who were wanting to follow it.
