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.

it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.

As he also said in Hosea. Those who were not my people I will call "my people," And her "beloved" who was not beloved;

And yet they did not all hearken to the good news; for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our message?

God did not cast off his people whom he foreknew. For do you not know what is said in the Scripture about Elijah? how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,