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Romans 3:31

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

KJV

νόμον οὖν καταργοῦμεν διὰ τῆς πίστεως; μὴ γένοιτο, ἀλλὰ νόμον ἱστάνομεν.

Greek NT

Legem ergo destruimus per fidem ? Absit : sed legem statuimus.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καταργέω
katargeo
verb · 27×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
πίστις
pistis
noun · 243×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἵστημι
istemi
verb · 152×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: ἱστάνομεν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἱστάνομεν | RP: ἱστῶμεν
  • ἱστάνομενSBLGNT
  • ἱστάνομενWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἱστῶμενRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. They thought that He, thus speaking, did so with a view to the abrogation of the ancient institutions. This suspicion therefore He heals; nor here only does He so, but elsewhere also again. Thus, since they accounted Him no less than an adversary of God, from this sort of reason, namely, His not keeping the sabbath; He, to heal such their suspicion, there also again sets for…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210207.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
1. You have heard how much Paul found fault with the Hebrews for wishing to be always learning about the same things. And with good reason: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, you have need again that some one teach you the elements of the first principles of the oracles of God. Hebrews 5:12 I am afraid that this might fitly be said to you also, that when for the tim…
Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. The moral law, contained in the Ten Commandments and enforced by the prophets, Christ did not take away. It was not the design of His coming to revoke any part of this. The moral law stands fast for ever as a faithful witness in heaven. Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind and in all ages.
For the instruction and memory of man, God has given his law, which is expressed in the Decalogue, and which holy men of God before Moses had received from the tradition of the fathers. We teach that in this law the will of God is explained to us: what he wills and what he does not will, what is good and just and what is evil and unjust. We therefore confess that the law is goo…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 9:21 — To 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.
  • 2Tim 1:10 — But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 2:21 — I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
  • Gal 3:17 — And 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.
  • Gal 3:21 — Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
  • Isa 42:21 — The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
  • Isa 42:21 — The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
  • Jas 2:8 — If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
  • Jer 8:8 — How 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.
  • Jer 31:33 — But 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
  • Job 15:4 — Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
  • Luke 16:17 — And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
  • Mal 4:4 — Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
  • Mark 7:9 — And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
  • Matt 3:15 — And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
  • Matt 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
  • Matt 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
  • Matt 5:20 — For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
  • Matt 15:4 — For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
  • Matt 15:6 — And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
  • Ps 40:8 — I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
  • Ps 119:126 — It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
  • Ps 119:126 — It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
  • Rom 3:4 — God 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.
  • Rom 3:4 — God 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.
  • Rom 4:14 — For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
  • Rom 4:14 — For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
  • Rom 6:1 — What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
  • Rom 7:7 — What 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.
  • Rom 7:12 — Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
  • Rom 7:22 — For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
  • Rom 7:25 — I 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.
  • Rom 8:4 — That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:7 — Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
  • Rom 10:4 — For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
  • Rom 13:8 — Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.