Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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,

The ungodly

General references

Bible References

The law

Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
Romans 5:20
The law came along to multiply the trespass. But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more
Romans 6:14
For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.
Galatians 5:23
gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Disobedient

Romans 1:30
slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
Hebrews 11:31
By faith Rahab the prostitute received the spies in peace and didn’t perish with those who disobeyed.
1 Peter 2:7
So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected—
this One has become the cornerstone,
1 Peter 3:20
who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people—were saved through water.

The ungodly

1 Peter 4:18
And if a righteous person is saved with difficulty,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?

Profane

Jeremiah 23:11
because both prophet and priest are ungodly,
even in My house I have found their evil.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Ezekiel 21:25
And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,
the day has come
for your punishment.”
Hebrews 12:16
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal.

Murderers

Leviticus 20:9
“If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on his own hands.
Deuteronomy 27:16
‘The one who dishonors his father or mother is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
2 Samuel 16:11
Then David said to Abishai and all his servants, “Look, my own son, my own flesh and blood, intends to take my life—how much more now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone and let him curse me; the Lord has told him to.
2 Samuel 17:1
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out in pursuit of David tonight.
2 Kings 19:37
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.
2 Chronicles 32:21
and the Lord sent an angel who annihilated every brave warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned in disgrace to his land. He went to the temple of his god, and there some of his own children struck him down with the sword.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or mother
his lamp will go out in deep darkness.
Proverbs 28:24
The one who robs his father or mother
and says, “That’s no sin,”
is a companion to a man who destroys.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses its father
and does not bless its mother.
Matthew 10:21
“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will even rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

Manslayers

Genesis 9:5
I will require the life of every animal and every man for your life and your blood. I will require the life of each man’s brother for a man’s life.
Exodus 20:13
Do not murder.
Exodus 21:14
If a person schemes and willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from My altar to be put to death.
Numbers 35:30
“If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death based on the word of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of one witness.
Deuteronomy 21:6
All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.
Proverbs 28:17
A man burdened by bloodguilt
will be a fugitive until death.
Let no one help him.
Galatians 5:21
envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Revelation 21:8
But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

General references

Exodus 20:13
Do not murder.

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