Romans 3:31

Geneva Bible (1560)

Doe we then make the Lawe of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Lawe.

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  • Matt 5:17 : 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the Lawe, or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy them, but to fulfill them.
  • Rom 8:4 : 4 That that righteousnes of the Law might be fulfilled in vs, which walke not after ye flesh, but after the Spirit.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I doe not abrogate the grace of God: for if righteousnes be by the Lawe, then Christ dyed without a cause.
  • Gal 3:17-19 : 17 And this I say, that the couenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres after, can not disanull, that it shoulde make the promise of none effect. 18 For if the inheritance be of the Lawe, it is no more by the promise, but God gaue it freely vnto Abraham by promise. 19 Wherefore then serueth the Law? It was added because of the transgressions, til the seed came, vnto the which the promise was made: and it was ordeined by Angels in the hande of a Mediatour.
  • Heb 10:15-16 : 15 For the holy Ghost also beareth vs record: for after that he had sayd before, 16 This is the Testament that I will make vnto them after those dayes, sayth the Lord, I wil put my Lawes in their heart, and in their mindes I will write them.
  • Jas 2:8-9 : 8 But if yee fulfill the royall Lawe according to the Scripture, which saith, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe, yee doe well. 9 But if yee regarde the persons, yee commit sinne, and are rebuked of the Lawe, as transgressours. 10 For whosoeuer shall keepe the whole Lawe, and yet faileth in one poynt, hee is guiltie of all. 11 For he that saide, Thou shalt not commit adulterie, saide also, Thou shalt not kill. Nowe though thou doest none adulterie, yet if thou killest, thou art a transgressour of the Lawe. 12 So speake ye, and so doe, as they that shal be iudged by the Lawe of libertie.
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnes vnto euery one that beleeueth.
  • Rom 13:8-9 : 8 Owe nothing to any man, but to loue one another: for he that loueth another, hath fulfilled the Lawe. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adulterie, Thou shalt not kil, Thou shalt not steale, Thou shalt not beare false witnes, Thou shalt not couet: and if there be any other commaundement, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, euen in this, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. 10 Loue doeth not euill to his neighbour: therefore is loue the fulfilling of the Lawe.
  • 1 Cor 9:21 : 21 To them that are without Lawe, as though I were without Lawe, (when I am not without Lawe as pertaining to God, but am in the Lawe through Christ) that I may winne them that are without Lawe:
  • Gal 2:19 : 19 For I through the Lawe am dead to the Lawe, that I might liue vnto God.
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.
  • Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time for thee Lorde to worke: for they haue destroyed thy Lawe.
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 The Lorde is willing for his righteousnesse sake that he may magnifie the Lawe, and exalt it.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 Howe doe yee say, Wee are wise, and the Lawe of the Lorde is with vs? Loe, certeinly in vaine made hee it, the penne of the scribes is in vaine. 9 The wise men are ashamed: they are afraid and taken. loe, they haue reiected the word of the Lorde, and what wisdome is in them?
  • Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this shall be the couenant that I will make with the house of Israel, After those dayes, saith the Lord, I will put my Lawe in their inward partes, and write it in their hearts, and wil be their God, and they shalbe my people. 34 And they shall teach no more euery man his neighbour and euery man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me from the least of them vnto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I wil forgiue their iniquitie, and will remember their sinnes no more.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 Then Iesus answering, saide to him, Let be nowe: for thus it becommeth vs to fulfill all righteousnes. So he suffered him.
  • Matt 5:20 : 20 For I say vnto you, except your righteousnes exceede the righteousnes of the Scribes and Pharises, ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen.
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commaundement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, and euery man a lyar, as it is written, That thou mightest be iustified in thy words, and ouercome, when thou art iudged.
  • Rom 4:14 : 14 For if they which are of the Lawe, be heires, faith is made voide, & the promise is made of none effect.
  • Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust. 8 But sinne tooke an occasion by ye commandement, and wrought in me all maner of concupiscence: for without the Lawe sinne is dead. 9 For I once was aliue, wtout the Law: but when the commandement came, sinne reuiued, 10 But I died: and the same commandement which was ordeined vnto life, was found to be vnto me vnto death. 11 For sinne tooke occasion by the commandement, and deceiued me, and thereby slewe me. 12 Wherefore the Lawe is holy, and that commandement is holy, and iust, and good. 13 Was that then which is good, made death vnto me? God forbid: but sinne, that it might appeare sinne, wrought death in me by that which is good, that sinne might be out of measure sinfull by the commandement. 14 For we knowe that the Law is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder sinne.
  • Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delite in the Law of God, concerning the inner man:
  • Rom 7:25 : 25 I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lorde. Then I my selfe in my minde serue the Lawe of God, but in my flesh the lawe of sinne.
  • Gal 5:18-23 : 18 And if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not vnder the Lawe. 19 Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes, 20 Idolatrie, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies, 21 Enuie, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonie, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also haue tolde you before, that they which doe such things, shall not inherite the kingdome of God. 22 But the fruite of the Spirit is loue, ioye, peace, long suffering, gentlenes, goodnes, fayth, 23 Meekenesse, temperancie: against such there is no lawe.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where is then the reioycing? It is excluded. By what Lawe? of woorkes? Nay: but by the Lawe of faith.

    28Therefore we conclude, that a man is iustified by faith, without the workes of the Lawe.

  • Gal 3:9-12
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    9So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithfull Abraham.

    10For as many as are of the workes of the Lawe, are vnder the curse: for it is written, Cursed is euery man that continueth not in all things, which are written in the booke of the Law, to doe them.

    11And that no man is iustified by the Law in the sight of God, it is euident: for the iust shall liue by faith.

    12And the Lawe is not of faith: but the man that shall doe those things, shall liue in them.

  • Gal 3:21-25
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    21Is the Lawe then against the promises of God? God forbid: For if there had bene a Lawe giuen which coulde haue giuen life, surely righteousnes should haue bene by the Lawe.

    22But the Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promes by the faith of Iesus Christ should be giuen to them that beleeue.

    23But before faith came, we were kept vnder the Law, as vnder a garison, and shut vp vnto that faith, which should afterward be reueiled.

    24Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

    25But after that faith is come, we are no longer vnder a scholemaster.

  • Rom 3:30
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    30For it is one God, who shall iustifie circumcision of faith, and vncircumcision through faith.

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16Knowe that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law, but by ye faith of Iesus Christ, euen we, I say, haue beleeued in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, & not by the workes of the Lawe, because that by the workes of the Lawe, no flesh shalbe iustified.

    17If then while we seeke to be made righteous by Christ, we our selues are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sinne? God forbid.

  • Gal 3:17-18
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    17And this I say, that the couenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres after, can not disanull, that it shoulde make the promise of none effect.

    18For if the inheritance be of the Lawe, it is no more by the promise, but God gaue it freely vnto Abraham by promise.

  • Rom 6:15
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    15What then? shall we sinne, because we are not vnder the Law, but vnder grace? God forbid.

  • Rom 4:13-16
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    13For the promise that he should be the heire of the worlde, was not giuen to Abraham, or to his seede, through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

    14For if they which are of the Lawe, be heires, faith is made voide, & the promise is made of none effect.

    15For the Lawe causeth wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.

    16Therefore it is by faith, that it might come by grace, and the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Lawe: but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

  • Rom 3:20-22
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    20Therefore by the woorkes of the Lawe shall no flesh be iustified in his sight: for by the Lawe commeth the knowledge of sinne.

    21But nowe is the righteousnesse, of God made manifest without the Lawe, hauing witnes of the Lawe and of the Prophets,

    22To wit, the righteousnesse of God by the faith of Iesus Christ, vnto all, and vpon all that beleeue.

  • Rom 7:6-7
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    6But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the Lawe sinne? God forbid. Nay, I knewe not sinne, but by the Lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Lawe had sayd, Thou shalt not lust.

  • Gal 2:21
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    21I doe not abrogate the grace of God: for if righteousnes be by the Lawe, then Christ dyed without a cause.

  • Gal 3:5-6
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    5He therefore that ministreth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it through the workes of the Law, or by the hearing of faith preached?

    6Yea rather as Abraham beleeued God, and it was imputed to him for righteousnes.

  • Rom 2:13
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    13(For the hearers of the Lawe are not righteous before God: 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 righteousnes, haue attained vnto righteousnes, euen the righteousnes which is of faith.

    31But Israel which followed the Lawe of righteousnes, could not arteine vnto the Law of righteousnes.

  • Rom 5:1
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    1Then being iustified by faith, we haue peace toward God through our Lord Iesus Christ.

  • Rom 3:3
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    3For what, though some did not beleeue? Shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?

  • Rom 10:4-5
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    4For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousnes vnto euery one that beleeueth.

    5For Moses thus describeth the righteousnes which is of the Lawe, That the man which doeth these things, shall liue thereby.

  • Rom 3:6
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    6God forbid: els how shal God iudge ye world?

  • Phil 3:9
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    9And might bee founde in him, that is, not hauing mine owne righteousnesse, which is of the Lawe, but that which is through the faith of Christ, euen the righteousnesse which is of God through faith,

  • 1 Tim 1:8
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    8And we knowe, that the Law is good, if a man vse it lawfully,

  • Gal 3:14-15
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    14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Iesus, that wee might receiue the promes of the Spirite through faith.

    15Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.

  • Rom 8:4
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    4That that righteousnes of the Law might be fulfilled in vs, which walke not after ye flesh, but after the Spirit.

  • Rom 3:9
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    9What then? Are we more excellent? No, in no wise: for we haue alreadie prooued, that all, both Iewes and Gentiles are vnder sinne,

  • Rom 6:1
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue still in sinne, that grace may abounde? God forbid.

  • Gal 3:2
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    2This only would I learne of you, Receiued ye the Spirit by the workes of the Lawe, or by the hearing of faith preached?

  • Rom 2:27
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    27And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?

  • Gal 5:4
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    4Ye are abolished from Christ: whosoeuer are iustified by the Law, ye are fallen from grace.

  • Jas 2:24
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    24Ye see then howe that of workes a man is iustified, and not of faith onely.

  • Rom 1:17
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    17For by it the righteousnesse of God is reueiled from faith to faith: as it is written, The iust shall liue by faith.

  • Rom 2:23
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    23Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?