What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."

And in the place where it was said, 'You are no people of mine,' they shall be called sons of the living God."

But of Israel he said: "All day long I have held out my hands to a people that is disobedient and obstinate."

And David said: "Let their food become a snare and a trap to them, their pitfall and retribution;