Romans 3:31

Far from abolishing the law, faith actually upholds it. The gospel honors God's law rather than discarding it.

Cross-references · 24

• Gal 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
• Matt 5:17Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
• Rom 13:8–10Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
• 1 Cor 9:21To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.
• Rom 8:4so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
• Rom 7:7–14What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
• Jer 8:8–9How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
• Gal 3:17–19What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
• Jas 2:8–12If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
• Rom 4:14For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
• Matt 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
• Matt 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
• Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Rom 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
• Isa 42:21The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
• Ps 119:126It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.
• Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
• Gal 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
• Rom 7:25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
• Matt 3:15“Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• Gal 5:18–23But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
• Heb 10:15–16The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First He says:

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