And you, Ezra, according to God’s wisdom that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people in the region west of the Euphrates who know the laws of your God and to teach anyone who does not know them.
Romans 7:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Since I am speaking to those who know the law, brothers and sisters, don’t you know that the law rules over someone as long as he lives? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition DO YOU not know, brethren–for I am speaking to men who are acquainted with the Law–that legal claims have power over a person only for as long as he is alive? American Standard Version (1901) Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? Common English Bible Brothers and sisters, I’m talking to you as people who know the Law. Don’t you know that the Law has power over someone only as long as he or she lives? Catholic Public Domain Version Or do you not know, brothers, (now I am speaking to those who know the law) that the law has dominion over a man only so long as he lives? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version KNOW you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law hath dominion over a man, as long as it liveth? |
And you, Ezra, according to God’s wisdom that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges to judge all the people in the region west of the Euphrates who know the laws of your God and to teach anyone who does not know them.
For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.
Now I don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often planned to come to you (but was prevented until now ) in order that I might have a fruitful ministry among you, just as I have had among the rest of the Gentiles.
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes,
For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.
Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death?
But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the benefit of my brothers and sisters, my own flesh and blood.
Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?