1 Timothy 1:9
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as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEphesus was a major city in Roman Asia Minor where Timothy was left to address false teaching in the church; Macedonia was the Roman region from which Paul wrote or traveled. Their mention frames Paul’s instruction that the law exposes the sin of the lawless rather than justifying the righteous.
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1 Timothy 1:9 mentions Ephesus and Macedonia.
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