For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

for as many as sinned without law shall also perish without law; and as many as sinned under law shall be judged by law;

(for, when gentiles who have no law do by nature the things of the law, these, having no law, are a law to themselves;

What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.