Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Timothy 1:8

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8. But —" Now we know" ( Romans 3:19 ; Romans 7:14 ). law is good —in full agreement with God's holiness and goodness. if a man —primarily, a teacher; then, every Christian. use it lawfully —in its lawful place in the Gospel economy, namely, not as a means of a "'righteous man" attaining higher perfection than could be attained by the Gospel alone ( 1 Timothy 4:8 ; Titus 1:14 ), which was the perverted use to which the false teachers put it, but as a means of awakening the sense of sin in the ungodly ( 1 Timothy 1:9 ; 1 Timothy 1:10 ; compare Romans 7:7-12 ; Galatians 3:21 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"

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