A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench, till He sends forth judgment to victory;

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

I was alive once apart from the Law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.

For I through the Law died to the Law that I might live to God.

They have been dismayed and answer no more; they have left off speaking.

And I have waited, because they did not speak, because they have stood still and answered no more.

And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

And after that they dared not question Him anymore.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

holding fast the faithful Word according to the teaching, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.

whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.