Romans 7:7-8
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.”
The apostle Paul is writing to Christians in Rome, grappling with the relationship between God's law (specifically the Jewish Torah) and sin. He's exploring whether the law itself is problematic, or if its role is to illuminate humanity's inherent struggle with sin.
How does naming something as 'forbidden' or 'wrong' in our society shape our understanding of it, and sometimes even our desire for it?