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, except the law had said, you shall not covet.

It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of hosts had left us a descendant, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.