They said to him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard to other farmers, who shall return to him the fruits in their seasons.
Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
I say then, Have they stumbled so that they would fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.
Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear to be sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. No, I would not have known sin, except by the law: for I would not have known lust, unless the law had said, You shall not covet.
Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.