Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Therefore shall we leave the law inactive by faith It may not be: but we should establish the law.
New American Standard Bible
Do we then nullify
King James Version
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Holman Bible
Do we then cancel the law through faith? Absolutely not!
International Standard Version
Do we, then, abolish the Law by this faith? Of course not! Instead, we uphold the Law.
A Conservative Version
Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.
American Standard Version
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
Amplified
Do we then nullify the Law by this faith [making the Law of no effect, overthrowing it]? Certainly not! On the contrary, we confirm and establish and uphold the Law [since it convicts us all of sin, pointing to the need for salvation].
An Understandable Version
Do we then [intend to] destroy law [observance] because faith [in Christ is now required]? Certainly not! But [instead], we uphold [the validity of] law.
Anderson New Testament
Do we, then, make law void through the faith? It can not be. On the other hand, we establish law.
Bible in Basic English
Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
Common New Testament
Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Daniel Mace New Testament
do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.
Darby Translation
Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: no, but we establish law.
Godbey New Testament
Then do we make void the law through faith? It could not be so: but we establish the law.
Goodspeed New Testament
Is this using faith to overthrow law? Far from it. This confirms the Law.
John Wesley New Testament
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
King James 2000
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law.
Modern King James verseion
Do we then make the Law void through faith? Let it not be! But we establish the Law.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Do we then destroy the law through faith? God forbid. But we, rather, maintain the law.
Moffatt New Testament
Then 'by this faith' we 'cancel the Law'? Not for one moment! We uphold the Law.
Montgomery New Testament
Do we then render law invalid through faith? Certainly not; on the contrary we make it stand.
NET Bible
Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
New Heart English Bible
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be. No, we establish the law.
Noyes New Testament
Do we then make void the Law through faith? Far be it! On the contrary, we establish the Law.
Sawyer New Testament
Do we then abrogate the law by the faith? By no means; but we establish the law.
The Emphasized Bible
Do we then make, law, void through means of our faith? Far be it! On the contrary, law, we do establish!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Do we then abolish the law through faith? God forbid: but on the contrary, we give the law stability.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.
Webster
Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means: but we establish the law.
Weymouth New Testament
Do we then by means of this faith abolish the Law? No, indeed; we give the Law a firmer footing.
Williams New Testament
Do we then through faith make null and void the law? Not at all; instead, we confirm it.
World English Bible
Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
Worrell New Testament
Do we, then, make void the law through faith? It could not be! Yea, we establish the law.
Worsley New Testament
Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.
Youngs Literal Translation
Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.
Themes
Faith/faithfulness » What is achieved through and by faith
Justification before God » By faith » Does not make void the law
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 3:31
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Prayers for Romans 3:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Boasting Excluded
30 Since one God, who will justify circumcision of faith, and uncircumcision by faith. 31 Therefore shall we leave the law inactive by faith It may not be: but we should establish the law.
Cross References
Matthew 5:17
Think not that I have come to abolish the law, or the prophets: for I have come not abolish, but to complete.
Romans 8:4
That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Psalm 40:8
To do thine acceptance, O my God, I delighted; and thy law in the midst of my bowels.
Psalm 119:126
The time to work to Jehovah: they let go thy law.
Isaiah 42:21
Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
How shall ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah with us? Behold, surely for falsehood he made the style of the scribes a lie.
Jeremiah 31:33-34
For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people.
Matthew 3:15
And Jesus having answered said to him, Permit now; for so it is suitable for us to complete all justice: then he permitted him.
Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.
Matthew 15:6
And should not honour his father or his mother. And ye have annulled the command of God by your tradition.
Romans 3:4
It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged.
Romans 4:14
For if they of the law, heirs, faith was made void, and the promise left inactive:
Romans 7:7-14
What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.
Romans 7:22
For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within:
Romans 7:25
I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 10:4
For Christ the end of the law for justice to every one believing.
Romans 13:8-10
Owe ye nothing to none, except to love one another: for he loving another has completed the law.
1 Corinthians 9:21
To the lawless, as lawless, (not being lawless to God, but subject to the law to Christ,) that I might gain the lawless,
Galatians 2:19
For I through the law died to the law, that. I might live to God.
Galatians 2:21
I put not away the grace of God for if justice through the law, Christ died in vain.
Galatians 3:17-19
And I say this, the covenant confirmed before by God in Christ, the law, having been after four hundred and thirty years, does not annul, to neglect the promise.
Galatians 5:18-23
And if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Hebrews 10:15-16
And also the Holy Spirit testifies to us: for after having said before,
James 2:8-12
If yet ye complete the royal law according to the writing, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: