1 Timothy 1:8

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Now we know that the law is good if one uses it properly.

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  • Rom 7:12-13 : 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. 13 Did what is good then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, used what is good to bring about my death, so that sin might become utterly sinful through the commandment.
  • Rom 7:16 : 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat. 8 The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple. 9 The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandment of the LORD is clear, giving light to the eyes. 10 The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, and altogether righteous.
  • Ps 119:96-99 : 96 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is exceedingly broad. 97 Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all day long. 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the elders, because I keep Your precepts. 101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word. 102 I have not turned aside from Your judgments, for You have taught me. 103 How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through Your precepts I gain understanding; therefore, I hate every false way. 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
  • Ps 119:127-128 : 127 Therefore, I love Your commandments more than gold, even pure gold. 128 Therefore, I consider all Your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
  • Deut 4:6-8 : 6 You must keep and do them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations, who will hear about all these statutes and say, 'Indeed, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him? 8 And what great nation has righteous statutes and judgments like this entire law that I am setting before you today?
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke to them from heaven. You gave them upright judgments, true laws, good statutes, and commandments.
  • Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing, and perfect will.
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, they do not receive a victor's crown unless they compete according to the rules.

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  • 1 Tim 1:9-10
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    9We also know that the law is not made for the righteous but for the lawless and rebellious, the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and profane, those who strike their fathers and mothers, and murderers,

    10the sexually immoral, those who practice homosexuality, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

  • Rom 7:12-14
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    12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

    13Did what is good then become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, in order to be recognized as sin, used what is good to bring about my death, so that sin might become utterly sinful through the commandment.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

  • 1 Tim 1:7
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    7They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or what they so confidently affirm.

  • Rom 7:6-8
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    6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'

    8But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.

  • Rom 2:18
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    18and know His will and approve things that are excellent, being instructed from the law,

  • Rom 7:16
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    16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15For the law brings wrath, and where there is no law, there is no transgression.

  • Rom 3:19-20
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    19Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

    20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Jas 2:8-12
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    8If you truly fulfill the royal law according to Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well.

    9But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

    10For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking it all.

    11For He who said, 'You shall not commit adultery,' also said, 'You shall not murder.' Now if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

    12Speak and act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

  • Gal 3:24
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    24So the law was our guardian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith.

  • Rom 2:12-14
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    12For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

    13For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be justified.

    14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things required by the law, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

  • Rom 7:1
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    1Do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a person as long as they live?

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5If a man is righteous and does what is just and right,

  • Rom 8:4
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    4This was so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  • Rom 2:2
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    2We know that God's judgment is based on truth against those who practice such things.

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, 'The righteous will live by faith.'

    12The law is not based on faith; instead, it says, 'The person who does these things will live by them.'

  • 1 John 3:4
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    4Everyone who commits sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.

  • Rom 3:31
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    31Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Absolutely not! Instead, we uphold the law.

  • Rom 7:21-22
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    21So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

    22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;

  • Jas 1:25
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    25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres—not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—this person will be blessed in what he does.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
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    8Do I say these things merely from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law also say the same?

  • Gal 3:21
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    21Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.

  • Rom 6:15
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    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!

  • Rom 3:8-9
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    8Why not say—as some slanderously claim we say—"Let us do evil so that good may result"? Their condemnation is just.

    9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already charged that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

    17But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

  • 2 Tim 2:5
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    5Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, they do not receive a victor's crown unless they compete according to the rules.

  • Rom 13:10
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    10Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3But if anyone loves God, they are known by Him.

  • Rom 2:20
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    20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth—

  • Jas 4:17
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    17So, if anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

  • Rom 10:5
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    5For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”

  • Titus 3:8
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    8This saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for all people.

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.