1 Timothy 1:8
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 indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. 13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! 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.
- Rom 7:16 : 16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
- Ps 19:7-9 : 7 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple. 8 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh's ordinances 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 extract of the honeycomb.
- Ps 119:96-99 : 96 I have seen a limit to all perfection, But your commands are boundless. 97 How love I your law! It is my meditation all day. 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For your commandments are always with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, For your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept your precepts. 101 I have kept my feet from every evil way, That I might observe your word. 102 I have not turned aside from your ordinances, For you have taught me. 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, More than honey to my mouth! 104 Through your precepts, I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way. 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, And a light for my path.
- Ps 119:127-128 : 127 Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, Yes, more than pure gold. 128 Therefore I consider all of your precepts 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 peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him? 8 What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances 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 right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
- Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.
- Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
- Rom 12:2 : 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, 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 make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.
- 2 Tim 2:5 : 5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
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- 1 Tim 1:9-102 verses82%
9 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,
10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
- Rom 7:12-143 verses75%
12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! 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.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
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7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
- Rom 7:6-83 verses74%
6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."
8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
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18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
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16 But if what I don't desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.
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15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
- Rom 3:19-202 verses70%
19 Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
- Jas 2:8-125 verses70%
8 However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.
9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he has become guilty of all.
11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not commit murder." Now if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
12 So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.
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24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Rom 2:12-143 verses69%
12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.
13 For it isn't the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
14 (for when Gentiles who don't have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,
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1 Or don't you know, brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
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5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,
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4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
- Gal 3:11-122 verses69%
11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."
12 The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."
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4 Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
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31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- Rom 7:21-222 verses68%
21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.
22 For I delight in God's law after the inward man,
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25 But he who looks into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
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8 Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?
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21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law.
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15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
- Rom 3:8-92 verses68%
8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
- Gal 2:16-172 verses68%
16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!
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5 Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
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10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
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3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
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20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
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17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
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5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."
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8 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
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23 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.
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12 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.