Christian church—i.e., they offered a rather straightforward and seemingly God-honoring solution to libertinism within Paul’s congregations: accept a Jewish nomistic lifestyle and you will have clear guidance as to what is right and wrong, and so be able to live a life that pleases God (see Introduction, xcvi–xcvii). In line with such an interpretation, it is not too difficult to suppose that in saying “we are found to be sinners” Paul is responding to a charge of his opponents and granting the truth