King James Version (KJV)
1 Timothy 1:7
“Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.”
Verse in context — 1 Timothy 1
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Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:
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From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
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Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
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But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully;
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Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
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