For as many as have sinned without the law, shall perish also without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

(for when the Gentiles, who have not the law naturally, do the things of the law, these, though not having the law, are a law unto themselves:

What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

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