It can not be. But let God be true, though every man be a liar, as it is written: That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

It can not be: for if so, how shall God judge the world?

Do we, then, make law void through the faith? It can not be. On the other hand, we establish law.

It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It can not be. Indeed, I had not known sin, except through law. For I had not known evil desire, unless the law had said: You shall not have any evil desire.

Has, then, that which is good become death to me? It can not be. But sin, that it, might appear sin, was causing death to me through that which is good, in order that sin, through the commandment, might become exceedingly sinful.

Because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be.

Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.

What, then, shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

What, then, shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with. God? It can not be.

I say, then, Has God rejected his people? It can not be. For I am an Israelite, of the posterity of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

as it is written: God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes with which they can not see, and ears with which they can not hear.

I say, then, Have they stumbled, in order that they may fall? It can not be. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to excite them to jealousy.