The Law Holy and Just and Good
Romans 7:12
Why the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.


I. HOLY.

1. In principle.

2. In requirement.

3. In operation.

4. In tendency.As a whole and in each commandment it bears the character and expresses the mind and will of Him who is infinitely holy, and requires only what is holy and pure (Micah 6:8).

II. JUST. It demands what is just and right and nothing more, and requires only what man was made capable of rendering. It tends to promote justice and righteousness everywhere; and secures to each his due — God, our neighbour, ourselves.

III. GOOD — useful, beneficial, tending to the happiness of man. The commandment broken was Paradise lost; the commandment observed will be Paradise restored.

(T. Robinson, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

WEB: Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.




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