'By No Means' in the Bible
Certainly not! Let God be found true [as He will be], though every person be found a liar, just as it is written [in Scripture],“That You may be justified in Your words,And prevail when You are judged [by sinful men].”
But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak as a man;??6 by no means;??ince [if he was] how shall God judge the world?
Certainly not! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
Then what? are we the better? By no means: for we have proven already that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law.
Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin."
By no means: how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means.
by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. No, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? By no means. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
So I say, have they stumbled so as to fall [to spiritual ruin]? Certainly not! But by their transgression [their rejection of the Messiah] salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make Israel jealous [when they realize what they have forfeited].
but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.