God forbid: yea, let God be acknowledged true, though every man be a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome, when thou judgest.

Whereas one would hardly die for a just man, though perhaps for a good man one might dare even to die.

but now I am no more the doer of it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Now if I do that which I would not, I am no more the doer of it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

For if thou wert cut out of the wild olive, which was natural to thee, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive; how much more shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?