We hold a man is justified by faith apart from deeds of the Law altogether.

for we know that Christ never dies after his resurrection from the dead ??death has no more hold over him;

Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law.

Surely you know, my brothers ??for I am speaking to men who know what law means ??that the law has hold over a person only during his lifetime!

but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

He also says of Israel, All the day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.