Then you came down to Mount Sinai.\par You spoke to them from heaven.\par You gave them good laws.\par You gave them true teachings.\par You gave them laws and commands that were very good!\par
Romans 7:12 - Easy To Read Version So the law {\cf2\super [56]} is holy, and the command is holy and right and good. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Law therefore is holy, and [each] commandment is holy and just and good. American Standard Version (1901) So that the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. Common English Bible So the Law itself is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, the law itself is indeed holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. |
Then you came down to Mount Sinai.\par You spoke to them from heaven.\par You gave them good laws.\par You gave them true teachings.\par You gave them laws and commands that were very good!\par
We have proof that we can trust\par your word, Lord.\par And I love it.\par
Help me respond to your words and let me sing my song.\par Lord, all your laws are good.\par
Do what you promised for your servant,\par so that people will respect you.\par
Lord, people can trust all of your commands.\par Those people are wrong to persecute me.\par Help me!\par
Don’t change yourselves to be like the people of this world. But let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what things are good and pleasing to God and what things are perfect.
So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.
We know that the law {\cf2\super [57]} is spiritual. But I am not spiritual. Sin rules me like I am its slave.
And if I don’t want to do the \{bad\} things I do, then that means that I agree that the law is good.
“Now, people of Israel, listen! What does the Lord your God really want from you? The Lord wants you to respect him and do what he says. God wants you to love him and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
And no other nation is great enough to have laws and rules as good as the teachings I give you today.
We know that the law {\cf2\super [3]} is good if a person uses it right.