1 Timothy 1:9

American Standard Version (1901)

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

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  • Gal 5:23 : 23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
  • 1 Pet 4:18 : 18 And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?
  • Heb 12:16 : 16 lest [there be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
  • Gal 3:19 : 19 What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; [and it was] ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.
  • Rom 1:30 : 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  • Rom 5:20 : 20 And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
  • Gal 3:10-14 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them. 11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith; 12 and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them. 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
  • Rom 4:13 : 13 For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • 2 Thess 2:8 : 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;
  • Heb 11:31 : 31 By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with them that were disobedient, having received the spies with peace.
  • 1 Pet 2:7 : 7 For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;
  • 1 Pet 3:20 : 20 that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
  • Gen 9:5-6 : 5 And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God made he man.
  • Exod 20:13 : 13 Thou shalt not kill.
  • Exod 21:14 : 14 And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
  • Num 35:30-33 : 30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. 31 Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. 32 And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
  • Deut 21:6-9 : 6 And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 9 So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.
  • Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • 2 Sam 16:11 : 11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more [may] this Benjamite now [do it] ? let him alone, and let him curse; for Jehovah hath bidden him.
  • 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; 3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 19:37 : 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
  • 2 Chr 32:21 : 21 And Jehovah sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth from his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; Let no man stay him.
  • Prov 28:24 : 24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.
  • Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.
  • Jer 23:11 : 11 for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.
  • Ezek 21:25 : 25 And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
  • Matt 10:21 : 21 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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  • Rom 3:19-21
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    19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

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    21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

    8but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.

  • 15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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    30backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

    31without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful:

    32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

  • 13for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

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    12So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

    13Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness;

  • Rom 3:9-10
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    10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

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    12and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

  • 9the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

  • 2 Tim 3:2-3
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    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

  • 9but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

  • 49But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.

  • 19For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

  • 4Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore justice goeth forth perverted.

  • 8but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation,

  • 21Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

  • 3For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.