New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Timothy 1:8
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Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.
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But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully;
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But we know that the law is good if a person uses it lawfully,
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But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,
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Now we know that the law [is] good, if one uses it lawfully,
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1 Timothy 1
6 Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.
7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.
8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it legitimately.
9 We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching
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