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Romans 3:31 KJV
Romans · chapter 3 · verse 31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.Romans 3:31 · King James Version
Romans 3:31 in context
29Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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Key words (Strong's)
- establishhistēmito cause or make to stand, to place, put, set, to bid to stand by, [set up], in the…G2476 →
- throughdiathrough, of place, with, in, of time, throughout, during, of means, by, by the means of…G1223 →
- forbidmēno, not lestG3361 →
- forbidginomaito becomeG1096 →
- faithpistisconviction of the truth of anything, belief in the NT of a conviction or belief…G4102 →
- voidkatargeōto render idle, unemployed, inactivate, inoperative, to cause a person or thing to have…G2673 →
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From all this Paul infers that it is in vain to look for justification by the works of the law, and that it is to be had only by faith, which is the point he has been all along proving, from Rom 1:17, and which he lays down (Rom 3:28) as the summary of his discourse, with a quod erat demonstrandum - which was to be…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-31