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1 Timothy 1:8
“But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,”
Verse in context — 1 Timothy 1
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from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;
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desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
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But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
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as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
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for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
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