KJV King James Version
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
WEB World English Bible
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
ASV American Standard Version
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.
Surrounding context — Romans 3
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 [Is he] the God of the Jews only? [is he] not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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Galatians 2:21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.Matthew 5:17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.Romans 13:8-10Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.Romans 10:4For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.1 Corinthians 9:21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.Romans 8:4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.Romans 7:7-14What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.Galatians 3:17-19And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.Jeremiah 8:8-9How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.Romans 4:14For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:James 2:8-12If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:Matthew 3:15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.Romans 3:4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.Romans 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.Jeremiah 31:33-34But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.Romans 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:Galatians 2:19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.Psalm 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
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