So where has human boasting gone? It was completely shut out. On what principle? On that of doing something? No, but on the principle of faith.

For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.

Certainly sin was in the world before the law was given, but it is not charged to men's account where there is no law.

And in the place where it was said, 'You are no people of mine,' they shall be called sons of the living God."

Very well, but it was for lack of faith that they were broken off, and it is through your faith that you now stand where you are. Stop your haughty thinking, rather continue to be reverent,

In this matter it has ever been my ambition to tell the good news where Christ's name had never been mentioned, so as not to build upon foundations laid by other men,