Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’

But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I know that power has gone out from me.”

I know what to do so that when I am put out of management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”