Source Scripture
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Romans 3:27-31
27Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
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.
Question in context
Paul separates justification and boasting from any claim that faith erases YAHUAH's instruction. His own conclusion controls the reading: faith does not make the law void; it establishes the law.
What the passage itself says
- The immediate subject is boasting and justification, not a declaration that YAHUAH's standard has become unrighteous.
- Paul distinguishes the law of works from the law of faith before asking whether faith voids the law.
- The apostolic answer is explicit and should not be reversed by importing a contrary conclusion into the paragraph.
Immediate and confirming witnesses
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- Confirming witness: Matthew 5:17-19
YAHUSHA denies destroying the Law and warns against breaking or teaching away even the least commandment. - Confirming witness: Romans 7:12
Paul calls the law holy and the commandment holy, just, and good. - Confirming witness: Romans 8:3-4
The work of Messiah condemns sin so that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in those who walk after the Spirit. - Confirming witness: James 2:8-12
James applies the royal law and the law of liberty to the conduct of believers.
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