For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.

But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

Still death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned as Adam had, in the face of an express command. So Adam foreshadowed the one who was to come.

"Why, then," you will ask, "does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"