Romans 3:31

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“Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.”

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“Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.”

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“Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.”

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“Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.”

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“Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 3:31 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
  2. Psalms 119:126It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.
  3. Isaiah 42:21The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
  4. Jeremiah 8:8How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
  5. Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  6. Matthew 3:15“Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.
  7. Matthew 5:17Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
  8. Matthew 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
  9. Matthew 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
  10. Romans 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
  11. Romans 4:14For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
  12. Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
  13. Romans 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
  14. Romans 7:25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
  15. Romans 8:4so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  16. Romans 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
  17. Romans 13:8Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  18. 1 Corinthians 9:21To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
  19. Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
  20. Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
  21. Galatians 3:17What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
  22. Galatians 5:18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
  23. Hebrews 10:15The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:
  24. James 2:8If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

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