1 Timothy 1:9

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 law

Galatians 5:23

Disobedient

The ungodly

1 Peter 4:18

Profane

Hebrews 12:16

Murderers

Matthew 10:21

Manslayers

Galatians 5:21

Revelation 21:8

Revelation 22:15

Bible References

The law

For the promise that he should inherit the world did not come to Abraham or his descendants through Law, but through the righteousness due to faith.

Law was introduced in order that offences might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving-kindness of God was lavished the more,

For Sin shall not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of Love.

All who rely upon obedience to Law are under a curse, for Scripture says--'Cursed is every one who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law, and do it.'

Against such things there is no law!

Disobedient

They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents.

They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

Faith saved Rahab, the prostitute, from perishing with the unbelievers, after she had entertained the spies with friendliness.

It is to you, then, who believe in him that he is precious, but to those who do not believe he is 'a stone which, though rejected by the builders, has now itself become the corner-stone,'

who once were disobedient, at the time when God patiently waited, in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared; in which some few lives, eight in all, were saved by means of water.

The ungodly

If 'a good man is saved only with difficulty, what will become of the godless and the sinful?'

Profane

Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Murderers

Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;

Manslayers

Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'