31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. …
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-31)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 demonstrated. We conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of th…
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