desiring to be teachers of law, though under standing neither what they say nor of what they boldly affirm.

But we know that the law is good, if any one use it lawfully;

knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and for scorners, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers,

to give which testimony I have been appointed a preacher and an apostle; (I speak the truth, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faithfulness and in truth.

Lay hands hastily on no man, nor be partaker of other men's sins: keep yourself pure.

Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called, and for which you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.