04 - Chapter 2 To Whom Did God Give the Law?

With regard to the law, Paul divides the human race into two.1 All are sinners, but some have sinned ‘without law’; the rest have sinned ‘in the law’ (Rom. 2:12). This is the biblical divide – those ‘under the law’, and those ‘without law’ (1 Cor. 9:20-21). Those ‘in the law’ have the law of God; those ‘without law’ do not. Clearly, therefore, the law could not have been given to all men. If it had, Paul’s division would have been utterly meaningless; indeed, nonsensical.