Romans 3:31

New Century Version

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.

Cross References

Psalm 119:126

Lord, it is time for you to do something, because people have disobeyed your teachings.

Psalm 40:8

My God, I want to do what you want. Your teachings are in my heart.”

Isaiah 42:21

The Lord made his teachings wonderful, because he is good.

Matthew 15:6

You teach that person not to honor his father or his mother. You rejected what God said for the sake of your own rules.

Matthew 3:15

Jesus answered, “Let it be this way for now. We should do all things that are God’s will.” So John agreed to baptize Jesus.

Matthew 5:17

“Don’t think that I have come to destroy the law of Moses or the teaching of the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to bring about what they said.

Matthew 5:20

I tell you that if you are no more obedient than the teachers of the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 20:16

He will come and kill those farmers and will give the vineyard to other farmers.” When the people heard this story, they said, “Let this never happen!”

Romans 10:4

Christ ended the law so that everyone who believes in him may be right with God.

Romans 2:20

You think you can show foolish people what is right and teach those who know nothing. You have the law; so you think you know everything and have all truth.

Romans 3:4

No! God will continue to be true even when every person is false. As the Scriptures say: “So you will be shown to be right when you speak, and you will win your case.”

Romans 3:6

No! If God could not punish us, he could not judge the world.

Romans 4:14

If people could receive what God promised by following the law, then faith is worthless. And God’s promise to Abraham is worthless,

Romans 7:22

In my mind, I am happy with God’s law.

Romans 7:25

I thank God for saving me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.

Romans 8:4

He did this so that we could be the kind of people the law correctly wants us to be. Now we do not live following our sinful selves, but we live following the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those who are without the law I became like a person who is without the law. I did this to win those people who are without the law. (But really, I am not without God’s law—I am ruled by Christ’s law.)

Galatians 2:19

It was the law that put me to death, and I died to the law so that I can now live for God.

Galatians 2:21

By saying these things I am not going against God’s grace. Just the opposite, if the law could make us right with God, then Christ’s death would be useless.