⁴ Absolutely not!^(A) Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar,^(B) as it is written:

¹⁵ Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body?^(A) So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

¹⁷ But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ,^(A) is Christ then a promoter^[a](B) of sin? Absolutely not!^(C)