Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
But--"Now we know" (Romans 3:19; Romans 7:14).
law is good--in full agreement with God's holiness and goodness.
if a man--primarily, a teacher; then, every Christian.
use it lawfully--in its lawful place in the Gospel economy, namely, not as a means of a "'righteous man" attaining higher perfection than could be attained by the Gospel alone (1 Timothy 4:8; Titus 1:14), which was the perverted use to which the false teachers put it, but as a means of awakening the sense of sin in the ungodly (1 Timothy 1:9-10; compare Romans 7:7-12; Galatians 3:21).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Timothy 1:11
2 Timothy 3:16
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