And why not say—as we are accused and as some claim we say—that we should do evil that good may come of it? Their penalty is what they deserve. Universal Bondage to Sin.
What then can we say? That the law is sin? Of course not! Yet I did not know sin except through the law, and I did not know what it is to covet except that the law said, “You shall not covet.”
So it is not strange that his ministers also masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds. Paul’s Boast: His Labors.
For there have been some intruders, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, godless persons, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. The False Teachers.