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It was not through obedience to the law, but through faith justifying them, that Abraham and his posterity were promised the inheritance of the world.✻ (Romans 4, 13)
If it is only those who obey the law that receive the inheritance, then his faith was ill founded, and the promise has been annulled. (Romans 4, 14)
(The effect of the law is only to bring God’s displeasure upon us; it is only where there is a law that transgression becomes possible.) (Romans 4, 15)
The inheritance, then, must come through faith (and so by free gift); thus the promise is made good to all Abraham’s posterity, not only that posterity of his which keeps the law, but that which imitates his faith. We are all Abraham’s children; (Romans 4, 16)
there was guilt in the world before ever the law of Moses was given. Now, it is only where there is a law to transgress that guilt is imputed,✻ (Romans 5, 13)
and yet we see death reigning in the world from Adam’s time to the time of Moses, over men who were not themselves guilty of transgressing a law, as Adam was.) In this, Adam was the type of him who was to come. (Romans 5, 14)
The law intervened, only to amplify our fault; but, as our fault was amplified, grace has been more amply bestowed than ever; (Romans 5, 20)
Sin will not be able to play the master over you any longer; you serve grace now, not the law. (Romans 6, 14)
And if it is grace, not the law, we serve, are we therefore to fall into sin? God forbid. (Romans 6, 15)
You must surely be aware, brethren (I am speaking to men who have some knowledge of law) that legal claims are only binding on a man so long as he is alive. (Romans 7, 1)
A married woman, for instance, is bound by law to her husband while he lives; if she is widowed, she is quit of her husband’s claim on her; (Romans 7, 2)
Well, brethren, you too have undergone death, as far as the law is concerned, in the person of Christ crucified,✻ so that you now belong to another, to him who rose from the dead. We yield increase to God, (Romans 7, 4)
