“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.”
But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, does that mean Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! — if justification through Christ alone requires abandoning Torah-righteousness, the charge arises that Paul makes Jews 'sinners' like Gentiles; Paul's response is emphatic: Christ does not encourage sin ('diamartyrō' — solemnly attest), but this reductio shows the absurdity of thinking that grace leads to antinomianism.
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