May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written,
“That You may be justified in Your words,
And prevail when You are judged.”

What, then, shall we say that Abraham our father has found, as it respects the flesh?

So, through that commandment, sin found an opportunity to produce in my heart all kinds of improper desires for what belonged to others. For until there was the law, sin was dead [i.e., it did not stimulate excitement and activity as much].

And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:

For by means of God's commandment [against sinning], sin found an opportunity to deceive me and [even] kill me [spiritually].

Then I find a law, that, to me wishing to do that which is beautiful, that the evil is present with me:

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.