because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.