For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish 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, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves,

What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust to be sinful, if the law had not said, "Thou shalt not covet."

but I perceive another law in my body warring against the law of my mind, and captivating me to the law of sin, which is in my body.