<p>3:31<i>Do we then make the law of no effect through faith? God forbid. No, we establish the law</i>- Consider where the same word is used in the context of showing that the Law has indeed been &lsquo;made void&rsquo; or done away: Rom. 7:2, we are &ldquo;loosed&rdquo; from the Law, &ldquo;delivered from the Law&rdquo; (Rom. 7:6), the Law was &ldquo;done away&rdquo; (2 Cor. 3:11), &ldquo;abolished&rdquo; (2 Cor. 3:13), &ldquo;done away&rdquo; (2 Cor. 3:14), &ldquo;abolished&hellip; the law of commandments&rdquo; (Eph. 2:15). Clearly enough, the Law is indeed &ldquo;made void&rdquo;- by the death of Christ. The emphasis should therefore be on the fact that it is not&nbsp;<i>us</i>&nbsp;(&ldquo;we&rdquo;), who made it void. We as lawbreakers have no right to simply abrogate Divine Law, to void it because we broke it and we want to avoid the consequences. It can only be done by the Divine lawmaker and His Son. Our faith in Him and His saving grace doesn&rsquo;t mean that&nbsp;<i>we</i>&nbsp;make the law void; we by our sinfulness and acceptance of it do in fact establish or &lsquo;make to stand&rsquo; Divine law. Paul is anticipating the objections of his Jewish audience- that he was teaching that sinners could merely abrogate the Law they had broken. We sense how on the back foot Paul was- his critics must have been persistent, and his stress level must have been very high by constantly seeking to anticipate their objections and parry them did he actually need to have done this?. By believing in God&rsquo;s grace in Christ and not trying to get justification from keeping the Law of Moses, we are in a strange way fulfilling the &ldquo;righteousness of the law&rdquo; (Rom. 8:4). It may be that Paul here is using &ldquo;law&rdquo; as a reference to the Old Testament scriptures generally, which he has been quoting so freely to prove his point (he uses &ldquo;law&rdquo; like this in Rom. 3:19,21; although &ldquo;law&rdquo; in the first half of 3:31 seems to refer to the Mosaic Law specifically).&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Think not that I am come to destroy (&ldquo;to make void&rdquo;, Darby's Translation) the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil&quot; (Mt. 5:17) has some kind of unconscious, hard to define link with Rom. 3:31: &quot;Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law&quot;. The Greek words for &quot;destroy&quot; and &quot;make void&quot; are different; yet the similarity of phrasing and reasoning is so similar. I can't pass this off as chance, yet neither can I say there is a conscious allusion here. There is, therefore, what I will call an 'unconscious link' here.</p>