Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.

conscienceless, treacherous, with no human love or pity.

to every human soul who practices doing evil, the Jew first and then the Greek.

But if our wrongdoing brings to light the uprightness of God, what shall we infer? Is it wrong (I am using everyday human terms) for God to inflict punishment?

as the Scriptures say: "Not a single human creature is upright,

So where has human boasting gone? It was completely shut out. On what principle? On that of doing something? No, but on the principle of faith.

I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.