6. which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,
7. desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm.
8. Now we know that the law is good if any one uses it lawfully,
9. knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,
10. fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching,
11. according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.
12. And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him
13. who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.