Paul explains for himself how the law was another way how he was exposed to and acted on sin. If the law did not say "do not steal", we probably wouldn't know what stealing was... and there's that possibility that it wouldn't have existed. Sin is able to grab a hold on our curiosity and by learning of what stealing meant, we may have evil intentions and do exactly just that, opposite of what the law tells us not to do.
Romans 7:13
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
It's tough trying to overcome all these feelings, emotions and temptations that sin puts right in front of us so that we can easily take it and be lured into doing things we actually don't want to do. Paul describes this relationship in a way that can be applied to all of us: in our minds and our hearts we are under God's law yet our physical body is ruled by sin. It's through Jesus that we'll be able to first, find a balance between the two so that sin doesn't have power over the majority of our life... and gradually through Jesus, through His Word, through prayer, we'll be able to take sin out of our life and become the Godly man/woman that we ought to be. :)
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