1 Timothy 1:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

But we know that the law is good if a man uses it lawfully;

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  • Rom 7:12-13 : 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? Certainly not. But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good; that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
  • Rom 7:16 : 16 If then I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.
  • Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
  • Ps 119:96-99 : 96 I have seen the consummation of all perfection, but Your commandment is exceedingly broad. 97 MEM. Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. 98 You, through Your commandments, have made 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 ancients, 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 departed from Your judgments, for You Yourself have taught me. 103 How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through Your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. 105 NUN. 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, yes, than fine gold. 128 Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right; I hate every false way.
  • Deut 4:6-8 : 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation is there so great, who has God so near to them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
  • Neh 9:13 : 13 You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them just statutes and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
  • Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) nothing good dwells: for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man:
  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And do not be conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.
  • 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

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    9Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

    10For fornicators, for those who defile themselves with mankind, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

  • Rom 7:12-14
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    12Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

    13Was then that which is good made death unto me? Certainly not. But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good; that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

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

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    7Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm.

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    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

    8But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of covetousness. For without the law, sin was dead.

  • Rom 2:18
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    18And know His will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

  • Rom 7:16
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    16If then I do what I do not want to do, I agree with the law that it is good.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15Because the law produces wrath; for 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 says to those who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

    20Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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    8If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

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

    10For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

    11For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, yet if you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law.

    12So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.

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    24Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

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    12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

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

    14For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves:

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    1Do you not know, brothers, (for I speak to those who know the law,) that the law has dominion over a person as long as he lives?

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    5But if a man is just and does what is lawful and right,

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    4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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    2But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who commit such things.

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    21I find then a law, that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

    22For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man:

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    25But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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    21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.

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    15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not.

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    8And why not say, (as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say,) 'Let us do evil that good may come'? Their condemnation is just.

    9What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

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    16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

    17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? God forbid.

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    10Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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    20An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, who have the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

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    12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.