Romans 7:7-13 (NIV)
7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.
9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.
11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.
12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.
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.

Paul starts taking on those who would want to go the anti-law route. There is this delicate balance of stating the truth on both sides and helping people keep the whole picture in mind. The law did its job and without it we may not know the depth of our sin before God. For the Jew this is real important to remember why the law was given because for many it became an end in itself. The law could save you and all you had to do was obey it. However, the law was not given to bring that kind of life. The Spirit life came only from God, never from the written code. What the law does is help us to understand we are the problem, with or without the law, we are the problem. Personally, I do not like this message. I want someone or something to be the problem, but not me. Yet, I am the problem and the law does not solve that problem. There is someone who does solve my problem and His name is Jesus Christ. He will solve your problem as well. Christ can put to death the sinfulness that is in all our hearts. Praise His name, amen!