Romans 3:31

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Do we then destroy the lawe through fayth? God forbyd: But we rather mayntayne the lawe.

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  • Matt 5:17 : 17 Thynke not that I am come to destroy the lawe, or the prophetes. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfyll.
  • Rom 8:4 : 4 That the ryghteousnesse of the lawe, myght be fulfylled in vs, which walke not after the fleshe, but after the spirite.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I reiect not the grace of God: For yf ryghteousnesse come of the lawe, then Christe is dead in vayne.
  • Gal 3:17-19 : 17 This I say, that the lawe which began afterwarde, beyonde foure hundred and thirtie yeres, doth not disanull the testament that was confirmed afore of God, vnto Christe warde, to make the promise of none effect. 18 For yf the inheritauce be of the lawe, then not nowe of promise: But God gaue it vnto Abraham by promise. 19 Wherfore then serueth the lawe? It was added because of transgressions, tyl the seede came to whom the promise was made: and it was ordayned by Angels in the hande of a mediatour.
  • Heb 10:15-16 : 15 And the holy ghost also beareth vs recorde: For after that he tolde before, 16 This is the couenaunt that I wyll make vnto them after those dayes, (sayth the Lorde) geuyng my lawes in their heart, and in their myndes wyl I write them:
  • Jas 2:8-9 : 8 If ye fulfyll the royal lawe, according to the scripture, thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe, ye do well: 9 But yf ye regarde one person more then another, ye commit sinne, and are rebuked of the lawe, as transgressours. 10 Whosoeuer shal kepe the whole lawe, and yet fayle in one poynt, he is gyltie of all. 11 For he that sayde, thou shalt not commit adulterie: sayde also, thou shalt not kyll. Though thou do none adulterie, yet yf thou kyll, thou art become a transgressour of the lawe. 12 So speake ye, and so do, as they that shalbe iudged by the lawe of libertie.
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christe is the ende of the lawe, for ryghteousnesse to all that beleue.
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Owe nothyng to no man, but to loue one another: (For he that loueth another, hath fulfylled the lawe. 9 For this: Thou shalt not commit adultrie, thou shalt not kyll, thou shalt not steale, thou shalt not beare false witnesse, thou shalt not lust: and yf there be any other commaundement, it is comprehended in this saying: Namelye, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. 10 Charitie worketh no yll to his neyghbour, therfore the fulfyllyng of the lawe is charitie.)
  • 1 Cor 9:21 : 21 To them that are without lawe, become as though I were without lawe, (when I was not without law as parteyning to the lawe of God, but in the lawe of Christe) to winne them that are without lawe.
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the lawe, am dead to the lawe, that I myght lyue vnto God: I am crucified with Christe.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest.
  • Ps 119:126 : 126 It is tyme for me to do for Gods cause: for they haue brought thy lawe almost to nothyng.
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 The Lorde is mercyfull vnto them for his righteousnesse sake, that his word might be magnified and praysed:
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 Howe dare ye say then, we are wyse, we haue the lawe of the Lorde among vs? Truely in vayne hath he prepared his penne, and vainely haue the writers written it. 9 Therefore shall the wyse be confounded, they shalbe afraide and taken: for lo, they haue cast out the worde of the Lorde, what wisdome can then be among them?
  • Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this shalbe the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lorde: I wyll plant my lawe in the inwarde partes of them, and write it in their heartes, and wyll be their God, and they shalbe my people. 34 And from thencefoorth shall no man teache his neighbour or his brother, and say, Knowe the Lorde: but they shal all knowe me from the lowest vnto the hyest, saith the Lorde: for I wyll forgeue their misdeedes, and wyll neuer remember their sinnes any more.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 Iesus aunsweryng, sayde vnto hym: Suffer it to be so nowe. For thus it becommeth vs, to fulfyll all righteousnes. Then he suffred hym.
  • Matt 5:20 : 20 For I say vnto you: except your righteousnes, excede the righteousnes of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kyngdome of heauen.
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus haue ye made the commaundement of God, of none effect, by your tradition.
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 God forbyd. Yea let God be true, and euery man a lyer, as it is writte: That thou myghtest be iustified in thy sayinges, and ouercome when thou art iudged.
  • Rom 4:14 : 14 For yf they which are of the lawe be heyres, then is fayth but vayne, and the promise of none effect:
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the lawe sinne? God forbyd. Neuerthelesse, I knewe not sinne, but by the lawe: For I had not knowen lust, except the lawe had sayde, thou shalt not lust. 8 But sinne, takyng occasion by the commaundement, wrought in me all maner of concupiscence. For without the lawe, sinne was dead. 9 I once lyued without lawe: But when the commaundement came, sinne reuyued, 10 And I was dead. And the very same commaundemet, which was ordeyned vnto lyfe, was founde to be vnto me an occasion of death. 11 For sinne, takyng occasion by the commaundement, hath deceaued me, and by the same slewe me. 12 Wherfore the lawe is holy, and the commaundement holy, & iust and good. 13 Was that then which was good, made death vnto me? God forbyd. But sinne, that sinne myght appeare, by that which was good to worke death in me: that sinne by ye commaundement, myght be out of measure sinfull. 14 For we knowe, that the lawe is spirituall: but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delite in the lawe of God, after the inwarde man:
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I thanke God through Iesus Christe our Lorde. So then, with the mynde I my selfe serue the lawe of God: but with the fleshe, the lawe of sinne.
  • Gal 5:18-23 : 18 But and yf ye be ledde of the spirite, then are ye not vnder the lawe. 19 The deedes of the flesshe are manifest, which are these, adulterie, fornication, vncleannesse, wantonnesse, 20 Worshippyng of images, witchcrafte, hatred, variaunce, zeale, wrath, strife, seditions, sectes, 21 Enuyinges, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonies, and such lyke: of the whiche I tell you before, as I haue tolde you in tyme past, that they which do suche thinges, shall not inherite the kingdome of God. 22 But the fruite of the spirite is, loue, ioye, peace, long sufferyng, gentlenesse, goodnesse, fayth, 23 Mekenesse, temperauncie: agaynst such there is no lawe.

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    27Where is then thy boastyng? It is excluded. By what lawe? Of workes? Nay, but by the lawe of fayth.

    28Therfore, we holde that a man is iustified by fayth, without the deedes of the lawe.

  • Gal 3:9-12
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    9So then, they which be of fayth, are blessed with the faythfull Abraham.

    10For as many as are of the deedes of the lawe, are vnder the curse. For it is writte: Cursed is euery one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the lawe, to do them.

    11But that no man is iustified by ye lawe in the sight of God, it is euident. For the iust shall lyue by fayth.

    12And the lawe is not of fayth: but the man that doth them, shall lyue in them.

  • Gal 3:21-25
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    21Is the lawe then against the promise of God? God forbyd. For yf there had ben a lawe geuen which coulde haue geuen life: then no doubt righteousnesse shoulde haue ben by the lawe.

    22But the scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promise by ye fayth of Iesus Christe shoulde be geuen vnto them that beleue.

    23But before fayth came, we were kept vnder the lawe, and were shut vp vnto the fayth which shoulde afterwarde be reuealed.

    24Wherfore, the lawe was our scholemaister vnto Christe, that we shoulde be iustified by fayth.

    25But after that fayth is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaister.

  • Rom 3:30
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    30For it is one God whiche shall iustifie the circumcision by fayth, and vncircumcision through fayth.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16Knowe that a man is not iustified by the deedes of the lawe, but by the fayth of Iesus Christe: And we haue beleued on Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the fayth of Christe, and not by the deedes of the lawe, because by the deedes of the lawe no fleshe shalbe iustified.

    17If then, whyle we seke to be made ryghteous by Christe, we our selues are founde sinners: is therfore Christe the minister of sinne? God forbyd.

  • Gal 3:17-18
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    17This I say, that the lawe which began afterwarde, beyonde foure hundred and thirtie yeres, doth not disanull the testament that was confirmed afore of God, vnto Christe warde, to make the promise of none effect.

    18For yf the inheritauce be of the lawe, then not nowe of promise: But God gaue it vnto Abraham by promise.

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    15What then? Shall we sinne, because we are not vnder the lawe, but vnder grace? God forbyd.

  • Rom 4:13-16
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    13For the promise that he shoulde be the heyre of the worlde, was not to Abraham or to his seede through the lawe, but through the ryghteousnes of fayth.

    14For yf they which are of the lawe be heyres, then is fayth but vayne, and the promise of none effect:

    15Because the lawe causeth wrath. For where no lawe is, there is no transgression.

    16Therefore by fayth is the inheritaunce geuen that it might come by grace, that the promise myght be sure to all ye seede, not to that only which is of the lawe, but to that also which is of the fayth of Abraham, which is the father of vs al.

  • Rom 3:20-22
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    20Because that by the deedes of the lawe, there shall no flesshe be iustified in his syght. For by the lawe, commeth the knowledge of sinne.

    21But nowe is the righteousnes of God declared without the lawe, beyng witnessed by the testimonie of the lawe and of the prophetes.

    22The ryghteousnes of God commeth by the fayth of Iesus Christe, vnto all and vpon all them that beleue. There is no difference:

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    6But nowe are we delyuered from the lawe, and dead vnto it whervnto we were in bondage, that we shoulde serue in newenesse of spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the lawe sinne? God forbyd. Neuerthelesse, I knewe not sinne, but by the lawe: For I had not knowen lust, except the lawe had sayde, thou shalt not lust.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I reiect not the grace of God: For yf ryghteousnesse come of the lawe, then Christe is dead in vayne.

  • Gal 3:5-6
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    5He therfore that ministreth to you the spirite, and worketh miracles among you, doth he it through the deedes of the lawe, or by hearyng of the fayth?

    6Euen as Abraham beleued God, & it was ascribed to hym for righteousnesse.

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    13(For in the sight of God, they are not righteous whiche heare the lawe: but the doers of the lawe shalbe iustified.

  • Rom 9:30-31
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    30What shall we say then? that the gentiles which folowed not ryghteousnes, haue obtayned righteousnesse: euen the ryghteousnesse which cometh of fayth.

    31But Israel, which folowed the lawe of ryghteousnesse, hath not attayned to the lawe of ryghteousnesse.

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    1Therefore being iustified by fayth, we are at peace with god, thorowe our Lorde Iesus Christe:

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    3What then though some of them dyd not beleue? Shal their vnbeliefe make the fayth of God without effect?

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    4For Christe is the ende of the lawe, for ryghteousnesse to all that beleue.

    5For Moyses writeth, of the ryghteousnesse which is of the lawe, howe that the man which doth those thinges, shall lyue by them.

  • Rom 3:6
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    6God forbyd. For howe then shall God iudge the worlde?

  • Phil 3:9
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    9And be founde in hym, not hauyng myne owne ryghteousnesse which is of the lawe: but that which is through the fayth of Christ, the ryghteousnes which commeth of God through fayth:

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    8But we knowe that the lawe is good, yf a man vse it lawfully:

  • Gal 3:14-15
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    14That the blessyng of Abraham might come on the gentiles through Iesus Christe, that we myght receaue the promise of the spirite through fayth.

    15Brethren, I speake after ye maner of men: Though it be but a mans testamet, yet if it be alowed, no man reiecteth it, or addeth therto.

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    4That the ryghteousnesse of the lawe, myght be fulfylled in vs, which walke not after the fleshe, but after the spirite.

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    9What then? Are we better then they? No, in no wise. For we haue alredy proued, howe that both Iewes and Gentiles are all vnder sinne.

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    1What shall we saye then? Shall we continue in sinne, that grace maye abound? God forbyd.

  • Gal 3:2
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    2This only woulde I learne of you, whether ye receaued the spirite by the deedes of the lawe, or by the hearyng of the fayth?

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    27And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature, if it kepe the law, iudge thee, which beyng vnder the letter & circumcision, doest transgresse the lawe?

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    4Christe is become but vayne to you, as many of you as are iustified by the lawe, are fallen from grace.

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    24Ye see then, howe that of deedes a man is iustified, and not of fayth only.

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    17For by it is the ryghteousnes of God opened fro fayth to fayth. As it is written: the iuste shall lyue by fayth.

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    23Thou that makest thy boast of ye lawe, through breakyng the lawe dishonorest God.