Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world?

for before the law was given, ¹  sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin ²  when there is no law.

Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full restoration ¹  bring?

For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

First of all, ¹  I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people ¹  are without excuse.

For the promise ¹  to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under ¹  the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people ¹  because ²  all sinned –