Romans 7:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Wherefore the law is holy— In Romans 7:7 the Apostle laid down this position, "that the law was not sin." In Romans 7:8-11 he proves it, by shewing that the law was very strict in forbidding of sin, so far as to reach the very mind, and the internal acts of concupiscence; and that it was sin remaining under the law (which annexed death to every transgression) that brought death on the Israelites.—He here infers, that the law was not sinful, but righteous, just, and good; just such as by the eternal rule of right it ought to be.