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 don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
• Matt 5:17“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
• Rom 13:8–10Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
• 1 Cor 9:21to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
• Rom 8:4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Rom 7:7–14What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
• Jer 8:8–9“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
• Gal 3:17–19Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
• Jas 2:8–12However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
• Rom 4:14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
• Matt 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Matt 15:6he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
• Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Rom 3:4May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
• Isa 42:21It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
• Ps 119:126It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
• Gal 2:19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Rom 7:25I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.
• Matt 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, 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, for after saying,

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