and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

For just as it is written, "the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner?

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

But who indeed are you -- a mere human being -- to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder, "Why have you made me like this?"