wanting to be teachers of the law, although they[a] do not understand either the things which they are saying or the things concerning which they are speaking confidently.

But we know that the law is good, if anyone makes use of it lawfully, knowing this, that the law is not given for a righteous person but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and totally worldly, for the one who kills his father and the one who kills his mother, for murderers,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 1:7 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“understand”) which is understood as concessive