Yet this effort to focus on continuity posed a problem when interpreting Paul. Paul said things like the law could not give life (Gal. 3:21), that it could not justify (Gal. 2:16; Rom. 3:28), that the law exists only because of transgressions (Gal. 3:19) and that it came to increase the trespass (Rom. 5:20), that the passions of sin are aroused through the law (Rom. 7:5), that the law imprisons and enslaves (Gal. 3:22–23; 4:1; 4:22–31; Rom. 7:6), and that Christ has set us free from its confinement