What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be. However, I would not have known sin, except through the law. For I would not have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."

For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."