Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Timothy 1:8
(7) But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully;
(7) The taking away of an objection: he does not condemn the Law, but requires the right use and practice of it.
(7) But we know that the law [is] good, if a man use it lawfully;
(7) The taking away of an objection: he does not condemn the Law, but requires the right use and practice of it.
Verse 8. _BUT WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD_] The law as given by God, is both _good_ in _itself_ and has a good _tendency_. This is similar to what the apostle had asserted, Romans 7:12: _The law is h...
BUT WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD - We admit this; it is that which we all concede. This declaration is evidently made by the apostle to guard against the supposition that he was an enemy of the law. D...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. CONCERNING DOCTRINE CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The salutation (1 Timothy 1:1)_ 2. The charge concerning false doctrine (1 Timothy 1:3) 3. The law, its use, and in contrast with gra...
(_b_) 1 Timothy 1:3. REMINDER OF PAUL'S VERBAL CHARGE. 1 Timothy 1:3. The False Teaching, and a Digression on the Law. Some years before, Paul had foretold that error would assail the Church in Asia ...
We know that the law is good, if a man uses it legitimately, in the awareness that the law was not instituted to deal with good men, but with the lawless and the undisciplined, the irreverent and the...
THE ROYAL COMMAND (1 Timothy 1:1-2)...
KNOW. App-132. IF, App-118. A MAN. Greek. _tis._ App-123. LAWFULLY. Gr _nomimos_ Only here and 2 Timothy 2:5....
_But we know_ YET WE ARE ALL AWARE, a correction or concession. St Paul uses -we know" in a similar way, Romans 7:14, -I grant that the law is spiritual"; 1 Corinthians 8:3, -We are quite aware (with...
Timothy is exhorted to faithful Ministry. He is reminded first of the character of the true Gospel...
REPETITION OF CHARGE ALREADY GIVEN TO TIMOTHY...
ΟἼΔΑΜΕΝ ΔῈ Κ.Τ.Λ. _But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully_. For οἴδαμεν δέ cp. Romans 2:2; Romans 3:19; Romans 8:28 and οἴδαμεν ὅτι πάντες γνῶσιν ἔχομεν ...
DIGRESSION TO AVOID MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HAS BEEN JUST SAID...
ΟΪΔΑΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ Ο'ΊΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ ΚΑΛΌΣ (G2570) хороший, подходящий, полезный (NIDNTT; TDNT). ΝΟΜΊΜΩΣ (G3545) законно; то есть согласно закону (Ellicott...
DISCOURSE: 2221 THE LAW GOOD, IF USED ARIGHT 1 Timothy 1:8. _We know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully_. TO live under the government of laws that are wisely enacted and well administere...
IF A MAN USE IT LAWFULLY;— This plainly intimates, that there were some who abused the law, borrowing a pretence from it to condemn some of the best of men, and to subvert the gospel: and whereas some...
b. Misuse of the Law. 1 Timothy 1:8-11 _TEXT 1:8-11_ 8 But we know the law is good, if a man use it lawfully, 9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unr...
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; BUT - "Now we know" (; ): as an admitted principle. LAW IS GOOD - accordant with God's moral goodness. IF A MAN - primarily, a teach...
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
THE FIRST CHARGE TO TIMOTHY. To remember and act upon the instructions already given him by St. Paul, which were to be firm in resisting the heterodox teachers in Ephesus, as the Apostle had been hims...
TIMOTHY REMINDED OF HIS COMMISSION, AND EXHORTED TO EARNESTNESS 1, 2. Salutation. An apostle] St. Peter and St. John, with regard to whose position no question was raised, are content to call themselv...
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS LETTER The record in the book of Acts ends with the *apostle Paul in prison in *Rome. That was about AD 60 and he was there f...
BUT WE KNOW. — Better, _Now we know_: a strong expression of his knowledge, learned in the school of the Holy Ghost. He spoke with the conscious authority of an Apostle, confident of the truth of what...
CHAPTER 4 THE MORAL TEACHING OF THE GNOSTICS-ITS MODERN COUNTERPART. - 1 Timothy 1:8 THE speculations of the Gnostics in their attempts to explain the origin of the universe and the origin of evil, w...
οἴδαμεν, as in Romans 7:14; 1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 8:4, introduces a concession in the argument καλὸς ὁ νόμος was a concession made by St. Paul,...
And yet this alleged antagonism of the Law to the Gospel is factitious: _the Law_ on which they insist is part of law in general; so is the Gospel with which I was entrusted. The intention of both is...
A CHARGE AGAINST “VAIN TALKING” 1 Timothy 1:1 The relation of Paul to Timothy is an example of one of those beautiful friendships between an older and a younger man, in which each is the complement o...
This letter is an apostle's letter to a young minister having oversight of the church in Ephesus. The first part of the letter deals with the Church, its doctrine, its devotions, and its ministry. Dif...
UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW Paul was not saying that the law was not from God or that it did not fulfill a very important part of his purpose. It was the law that taught man he was a sinner....
_The law is good. Do not think I condemn the law of Moses, or those who observe it; it is good, if properly understood and rightly practised. I only blame those who make the law an occasion of disturb...
(3) As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, (4) Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies,...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
8_Now we know that the law is good _He again anticipates the calumny with which they loaded him; for, whenever he resisted their empty display, they seized on this shield for their defense “What then?...
The Epistles to Timothy and Titus have naturally a peculiar bearing and character, being addressed to persons deputed by the apostle to act in his name, or to care for the churches during his absence....
BUT WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD,.... The apostle says this to prevent an objection that might be made to him, that seeing he bore so hard on such who were fond of being teachers of the law, he was hi...
But we know that the law _is_ good, if a man use it lawfully; Ver. 8. _If a man use it lawfully_] For discovery of sin, for manuduction to Christ, and for a rule of life. _Lex, lux, Proverbs 6:23_. X...
_We know that the law is good_ Answers excellent purposes; _if a man use it lawfully_ In a proper manner. Even the ceremonial law is good as it points to Christ, and is emblematical of the various bra...
LAWFULLY; according to its proper design. The law of God is good as a rule of duty for all men; to restrain, by fear of its penalties, those who transgress it, and to point out the punishment which th...
BUT WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD, IF A MAN USE IT LAWFULLY;...
THE REAL PURPOSE OF THE LAW....
The apostleship of Paul is shown here to be no light matter. His was a call totally independent of the other apostles, but "according to the command of God." We have, therefore, no liberty to regard h...
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; 1. The law - What is "the law" mentioned in this verse? It this law binding on us today? Does this law include the Ten Commandments? 2. Us...
“BUT WE KNOW”: Paul, Timothy, and other faithful Christians are not ignorant as the false teachers, rather they “know” the following. 1 TIMOTHY 1:8 “THAT THE LAW IS GOOD”: The origin of these errors i...
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...
BUT WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD: not that I speak against the law of God, I know that it is _holy, and spiritual, and just, and good,_ ROMANS 7:12,14. It is good, though not for justification, yet fo...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "And we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully."[331]...
1 Timothy 1:8 But G1161 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 law G3551 good G2570 if G1437 one G5100 uses...
1 Timothy 1:8. IF A MAN USE IT LAWFULLY. ‘We know,' the apostle seems to say, ‘we who have been taught, through personal experience, by the Spirit of God, what is the nature and office of the law, tha...
IF A MAN USE IT LAWFULLY (εαν τις αυτω χρητα). Condition of third class with εαν and present middle subjunctive of χραομα with instrumental case....
1 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;_ Christ is our hope; we have not a shadow of a hope apart from him. I...
CONTENTS: Legalism and unsound teaching rebuked. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Timothy, Alexander, Satan, Hymenaeus CONCLUSION: Witnesses of Christ must not only be charged to preach the true Gospel doctr...
1 Timothy 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ._ Beza cites here the reading of the Complute polyglot bible, made under the patronage of...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 1:8 THE LAW IS GOOD. The false teachers have misused the law, but the law itself was a gracious gift of God to Israel (see Psalms 119:1).
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 1:3 Confronting the False Teaching. Paul charges Timothy to deal with the false teachers (vv. 1 Timothy 1:3). Next he briefly corrects their
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 1:8. WE KNOW THAT THE LAW IS GOOD.—The “grace and truth” which “came by Jesus Christ” did not abrogate the law. That law had a moral excellence, was indeed...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 1:1 _Christ Jesus _for _Jesus Christ_,_ _A.V. and T.R.; _according to _for _by_,_ _A.V.; _Christ Jesus our hope _for _Lord Jesus Christ_,_ which is our hope_,_ _A.V. and T.R. For...
Ver. 8. The apostle turns here from the false to the true, gives his own view of the nature of the law, and of the right use of it, as contradistinguished from that which he had condemned in others. _...
First Timothy. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour (1 Timothy 1:1), And the Greek word is "the royal commandment" of God; it's a word that is used when a king had m...
2 Timothy 2:5; Deuteronomy 4:6; Galatians 3:21; Nehemiah 9:13;...
Good [κ α λ ο ς]. Comp. Romans 7:16. Morally excellent and salutary. See on James 10:11. This is the only instance of crasqai to use with nomov law. Lawfully [ν ο μ ι μ ω ς]. Past o. o LXX The nature...
We grant the whole Mosaic law is good, answers excellent purposes, if a man use it in a proper manner. Even the ceremonial is good, as it points to Christ; and the moral law is holy, just, and good, o...
Lest any should have apprehended, from the reflection he made upon the teachers of the law in the foregoing verse, that he did disparage and undervalue the law itself, our apostle in this verse declar...