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1 Timothy 1:9-10
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9 Knowing [eido] this, [touto] that [hoti] the law [nomos] is [keimai] not [ou] made [keimai] for a righteous man, [dikaios] but [de] for the lawless [anomos] and [kai] disobedient, [anupotaktos] for the ungodly [asebes] and [kai] for sinners, [hamartolos] for unholy [anosios] and [kai] profane, [bebelos] for murderers of fathers [patraloas] and [kai] murderers of mothers, [metraloas] for manslayers, [androphonos]
10 For whoremongers, [pornos] for them that defile themselves with mankind, [arsenokoites] for menstealers, [andrapodistes] for liars, [pseustes] for perjured persons, [epiorkos] and [kai] if there be any [ei tis] other thing [heteros] that is contrary [antikeimai] to sound [hugiaino] doctrine; [didaskalia] KJV-Interlinear
9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers
10 and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching, NASB
If anyone could live a perfect life, then for whom would the Law have been created?
The law here is a reference to the Ten Commandments in part. Paul will list several transgressions which in part refers to the sins of man against God, and man against man.
God created the perfect standard. All rules of law, all rules differentiating right from wrong, came originally from God.
Man is incapable of creating his own standards. Look at the legislation of human governments throughout history. Even in our present day, legislation of laws ranges to the absurd. While one party or another constantly tries to create laws or legislation that is favorable to them. The counter part of that is that the same laws are unfavorable to others.
Mans efforts are filled with power lusts, unfairness, bias, favoritism, and so forth.
So, God created the Law from truth. And from truth, came mans indictment for mans failure to live up to the demands of the Law. Therefore, if the Law was made for sinners, and if humanity is nothing but sinners, then there is no one who can rise above the Law.
Paul begins with mans rebellion against God.
The lawless, ‘anomos,’ stands for those who have no interest in or no commitment to the laws or standards of society. This leads to rebellion. Ungodly, ‘asebes,’ refers to people who have no regard for anything sacred.
Of these first two categories, they are sinners. They have no regard for rules or law, because they have no regard for God or anything thing that carries the connotation of perfection that exists outside of the sphere of man. They reject truth.
The second pair of related flaws is unholy and profane. Unholy means to be indifferent toward God or anything that is holy. That leads to profanity, or the mental and verbal or even overt trampling of anything of a spiritual nature. And that means Christian nature, not false religions that claim spirituality. For false religions are an example of profanity against what is truth. And as for atheists, then it refers to their rejection of all manner of beliefs.
Lawlessness results in rebellion against truth, and that produces ungodliness, sinners, indifference, and blasphemy against truth, or anything related to truth.
The Law was made for such people. By rejecting truth, they see no need for their own salvation, or they figure that they can define their own destiny, without God.
The rest of Paul’s list in these two verses, comes from the second half of the Ten Commandments.
To kill ones father and mother is a reference to the dishonoring of ones parents, the fifth commandment.
Manslayers is a reference murderers, the sixth commandment.
Immoral men is a reference to violations of the legitimate marriage bed, the seventh commandment.
Kidnappers is a reference to theft, the eighth commandment.
Liars and perjurers is a reference to the ninth commandment.
And then Paul ends his list with a catch all, ‘whatever else,’ just to cover all of the bases with regard to sin and evil in humanity.
And all of these things are violations of ‘sound’ doctrine. Sound, ‘hugiaino,’ refers to hygiene, and is a reference to that which is clean, pure, healthy and wholesome.
And the wholesome instruction in life comes only from Bible doctrine.
Those who reject it are unclean, filthy, dirty, unwholesome. And unless you wash yourself, you cannot get clean. Doctrine is the only water that cleanses the filth of sin and evil, away from ones life. And this is only possible because Christ did the work that paved the way for cleaning up humanity.
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