A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.