All who sin without having the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

Indeed, when heathen people who have no law instinctively do what the law demands, although they have no law, they are a law to themselves,

And shall not the heathen man who is physically uncircumcised, and yet observes the law, condemn you who have the letter of the law and are physically circumcised, and yet break the law?

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."