But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully,
"Father-strikers and mother-strikers" is a better translation than "those who kill their fathers or mothers." [Note: E. K. Simpson, The Pastoral Epistles, p. 31.] Such people have no respect or affection for their own parents (cf. Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; the fifth commandment).