1 Timothy 1 - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

How men and women ought to behave, both in their religious and common life.

Whatever tends to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ, are brought to exercise Christian love. And as believers were righteous persons in God's appointed way, the law was not against them. But unless we are made righteous by faith in Christ, really repenting and forsaking sin, we are yet under the curse of the law, even

according to the gospel of the blessed God, and are unfit to share the holy happiness of heaven. (1Ti 1:12-17)