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:

it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.

And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.