Romans 3:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Νόμον οὖν καταργοῦμεν διὰ τῆς πίστεως; Μὴ γένοιτο: ἀλλὰ, νόμον ἱστῶμεν.

Transliteration

Nomon oun katargoumen dia tēs pisteōs? Mē genoito: alla, nomon histōmen.

Grammar Details

• *Nomon*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - law
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *katargoumen*: verb, present active, 1st person plural - we nullify/abolish
• *dia tēs pisteōs*: preposition + article + noun, genitive, feminine, singular - through the faith
• *Mē genoito*: optative phrase, aorist middle, 3rd person singular - may it not be
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *nomon*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - law
• *histōmen*: verb, present active, 1st person plural - we establish/uphold

Word Meanings

• *Nomon*: law/Torah/legal system
• *katargoumen*: nullify/abolish/cancel/render inoperative
• *Mē genoito*: may it not be/by no means/certainly not/God forbid
• *histōmen*: establish/uphold/confirm/strengthen

Referenced Verses

• Matt 5:17 : 17 `Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets -- I did not come to throw down, but to fulfill;
• Rom 8:4 : 4 that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness `be' through law -- then Christ died in vain.
• Gal 3:17-19 : 17 and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise, 18 for if by law `be' the inheritance, `it is' no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant `it'. 19 Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator --
• Heb 10:15-16 : 15 and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before, 16 `This `is' the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'
• Jas 2:8-9 : 8 If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' -- ye do well; 9 and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors; 10 for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one `point', he hath become guilty of all; 11 for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law; 12 so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,
• Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,
• Rom 13:8-9 : 8 To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other -- law he hath fulfilled, 9 for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;' 10 the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, `is' the fulness of law.
• 1 Cor 9:21 : 21 to those without law, as without law -- (not being without law to God, but within law to Christ) -- that I might gain those without law;
• Gal 2:19 : 19 for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;
• Ps 40:8 : 8 To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law `is' within my heart.
• Ps 119:126 : 126 Time for Jehovah to work! they have made void Thy law.
• Isa 42:21 : 21 Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.
• Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do ye say, We `are' wise, And the law of Jehovah `is' with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes. 9 Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?
• Jer 31:33-34 : 33 For this `is' the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people. 34 And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.
• Matt 3:15 : 15 But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.
• Matt 5:20 : 20 `For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.
• Matt 15:6 : 6 and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.
• Rom 3:4 : 4 let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'
• Rom 4:14 : 14 for if they who are of law `are' heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;
• Rom 7:7-9 : 7 What, then, shall we say? the law `is' sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said: 8 `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead. 9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; 10 and the command that `is' for life, this was found by me for death; 11 for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay `me'; 12 so that the law, indeed, `is' holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. 13 That which is good then, to me hath it become death? let it not be! but the sin, that it might appear sin, through the good, working death to me, that the sin might become exceeding sinful through the command, 14 for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;
• Rom 7:22 : 22 for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,
• Rom 7:25 : 25 I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.
• Gal 5:18-23 : 18 and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law. 19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit. 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;