And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, [is] not unjust, [is he]? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.)

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

But about Israel he says, "The whole day [long] I held out my hands to a disobedient and resistant people."