For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.

For when Gentiles, who have no law, obey by natural instinct the commands of the Law, they even though they have no law, are a law to themselves.

And shall not those who are physically uncircumcised, but who keep the Law, condemn you who are a breaker of the Law, although you have a written law and circumcision?

Then what becomes of boasting? It is shut out. What sort of law forbids it? A law of works? No, but a law of faith.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not. On the contrary I should not have become acquainted with sin had it not been for the Law; for except the Law had repeatedly said, "Thou shalt not lust," I should never have known the sin of lust.

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

But that the descendants of Israel, who were in pursuit of a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law?