Romans 3:31
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Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

do we.

Romans 4:14 For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the promise is made of no effect.

Psalm 119:126 It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.

Jeremiah 8:8,9 How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pens of the scribes hath wrought falsehood. . . .

Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 15:6 And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition.

Galatians 2:21 I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Galatians 3:17-19 Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect. . . .

God.

See on

Romans 3:4 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

yea.

Romans 7:7-14,22,25 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. . . .

Romans 8:4 That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Romans 10:4 For the end of the law is Christ: unto justice to everyone that believeth.

Romans 13:8-10 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law. . . .

Psalm 40:8 That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Isaiah 42:21 And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.

Jeremiah 31:33,34 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. . . .

Matthew 3:15 And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him.

Matthew 5:20 For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

1 Corinthians 9:21 To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law.

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

Galatians 5:18-23 But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. . . .

Hebrews 10:15,16 And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said: . . .

James 2:8-12 If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well. . . .

Context
Righteousness through Faith
30For it is one God that justifieth circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith. 31Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.
Cross References
Matthew 5:17
Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Luke 20:16
He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

Romans 2:20
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

Romans 3:4
But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

Romans 3:6
(I speak according to man.) God forbid! Otherwise how shall God judge this world?

Romans 8:4
That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Lexicon
Do we, then, nullify
καταργοῦμεν (katargoumen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2673: From kata and argeo; to be entirely idle, literally or figuratively.

[the] Law
Νόμον (Nomon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.

by
διὰ (dia)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

[this]
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

faith?
πίστεως (pisteōs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 4102: Faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness.

Absolutely not!
γένοιτο (genoito)
Verb - Aorist Optative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

Instead,
ἀλλὰ (alla)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

we uphold
ἱστάνομεν (histanomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2476: A prolonged form of a primary stao stah'-o; to stand, used in various applications.

[the] Law.
νόμον (nomon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3551: From a primary nemo; law, genitive case, specially, (including the volume); also of the Gospel), or figuratively.


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

Do we, then, nullify the Law through faith? Never may it be! Instead, we uphold Law.

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

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

Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.

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

Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law.

Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

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