Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No; but by the law of faith.

for the law inflicts punishment; for where no law is, there is no transgression.

for till the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged where there is no law.

But, besides the first offense, law was introduced, in order that offenses might abound: but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

so earnestly desirous have I been to preach the gospel, not where Christ had been named, lest I should build on another man's foundation;