1 Timothy 1:8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
We know that the law is good if one uses it properly.

English Standard Version
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,

New American Standard Bible
But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully,

King James Bible
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But we know that the law is good, provided one uses it legitimately.

International Standard Version
Of course, we know that the Law is good if a person uses it legitimately,

American Standard Version
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully:

Darby Bible Translation
Now we know that the law is good if any one uses it lawfully,

Young's Literal Translation
and we have known that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully;

Cross References

Romans 7:12
Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Romans 7:16
If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:5-11 Whatever tends to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ, are brought to exercise Christian love. And as believers were righteous persons in God's appointed way, the law was not against them. But unless we are made righteous by faith in Christ, really repenting and forsaking sin, we are yet under the curse of the law, even according to the gospel of the blessed God, and are unfit to share the holy happiness of heaven.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. But—"Now we know" (Ro 3:19; 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 (1Ti 4:8; Tit 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 (1Ti 1:9, 10; compare Ro 7:7-12; Ga 3:21).