Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded! By what principle? Of works? No, but by the principle of faith!

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

"And in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person's foundation,