001:006 From these some have drifted away, and have wandered into empty words.
001:007 They are ambitious to be teachers of the Law, although they do not understand either their own words or what the things are about which they make such confident assertions.
001:008 Now we know that the Law is good, if a man uses it in the way it should be used,
001:009 and remembers that a law is not enacted to control a righteous man, but for the lawless and rebellious, the irreligious and sinful, the godless and profane—for those who strike their fathers or their mothers, for murderers,
001:010 fornicators, sodomites, slave-dealers, liars and false witnesses;
and for whatever else is opposed to wholesome teaching
001:011 and is not in accordance with the Good News of the blessed
God with which I have been entrusted.
001:012 I am thankful to Him who made me strong—even Christ Jesus
our Lord—because He has judged me to be faithful and has
put me into His service,
001:013 though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor
and had been insolent in outrage. Yet mercy was shown me,
because I had acted ignorantly, not having as yet believed;
001:014 and the grace of our Lord came to me in overflowing fulness, conferring faith on me and the love which is in Christ Jesus.
001:015 Faithful is the saying, and deserving of universal acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; among whom I stand foremost.