All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

When Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

Where then is our boasting? It is excluded. On what law? On the law of works? No, but on the law of faith.

What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

but I see in my members another law, at war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.