'Absolutely' in the Bible
Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:That You may be justified in Your wordsand triumph when You judge.
Absolutely not! Otherwise, how will God judge the world?
Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.
Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.
What should we say then? Is there injustice with God? Absolutely not!
I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.