1 Timothy 1:7

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Summary

1 Timothy 1:7

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

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Understanding

General references

2 Timothy 1:11

Bible References

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But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

and are persuaded that you are a guide to the blind, a light to darkened souls,

I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

Tell me, you who are keen to be under the Law, will you not listen to the Law?

I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law.

For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;

Understanding

is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations,

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." He said to them, "No more will I tell you what authority I have for acting as I do.

Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

Nicodemus answered, "How can that be?"

On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?"

They claimed to be wise, but they have become fools;

who are always curious to learn and never able to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

But those people! ??like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin,

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Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,