Romans 3:31

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Summary

Romans 3:31

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

Do we

Galatians 3:17

Yea

Bible References

Do we

for if they only who are of the law have right of possession, faith is made useless, and the promise becomes of no effect.

Don't think that I am come to abolish the law or the prophets: I am not come to abolish, but to complete them.

thus have ye disannull'd the commandment of God by your tradition.

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if justification be by the law, Christ died to no purpose.

this therefore I say, that the law, which was not till four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul the promise, that was ratified before by God, so as to set the promise afoot.

Yea

Do we then conclude, that the law is the cause of sin? by no means; but I should not have had such a notion of sin, had it not been for the law: for I should not have known concupiscence was a sin, unless the law had said, "thou shalt not covet."

so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof:

for the end of the law was to bring men to Christ, that every one who believeth, might be justified.

Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that

and Jesus answer'd, Let it be so for the present, for it becometh us to do whatever is right. then John consented.

for I declare to you, that except your righteousness shall exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the heavenly kingdom.

to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

for by one law, I am dead to the other law, that I might live unto God:

but if you are governed by the spirit, you are not subject to the law.

and this is what the holy spirit declares, when after having said,

If, agreeably to the scriptures, you observe that royal law, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self," you do well.