You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was fully deceived, fell into transgression.

For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the descendant to whom the promise had been made. It was administered through angels by an intermediary.

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.