A moment in scripture
1 Timothy 1:7
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Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Timothy 1:5
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
- 1 Timothy 1:6
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
- 1 Timothy 1:8
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
- 1 Timothy 1:9
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.