for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,

For, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law -- to themselves are a law;

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.