What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.

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

For He said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. "You are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God."

And as Isaiah said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have been as Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah."

I say then, Did not God put away His people? Let it not be said! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not thrust out His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture said in Elijah, how he pleaded with God against Israel, saying,

And David said, "Let their table become for a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a recompense to them.

but as it is written, "To whom nothing was said about Him, they shall see. And they who have not heard shall understand."