WHAT shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.
For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty: only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh, but by charity of the spirit serve one another.
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?
For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign Ruler, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.