For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

(for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

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