What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there shall they be called Sons of the living God.

And according as Esaias said before, Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.