1 Timothy 1:8

8. But—"Now we know" (Romans 3:19; Romans 7:14).

law is good—in full agreement with God's holiness and goodness.

if a man—primarily, a teacher; then, every Christian.

use it lawfully—in its lawful place in the Gospel economy, namely, not as a means of a "'righteous man" attaining higher perfection than could be attained by the Gospel alone (1 Timothy 4:8; Titus 1:14), which was the perverted use to which the false teachers put it, but as a means of awakening the sense of sin in the ungodly (1 Timothy 1:9; 1 Timothy 1:10; compare Romans 7:7-12; Galatians 3:21).