Romans 3:31 : Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law. With the Seventh-Day adventists "the law" means the Ten Commandments. They use this pas-sage in an effort to prove that "the law" is not abolished in Christ, but established. But, unfortunately for their argument, the article "the" is not before law in the Greek in this verse. The marginal reading of the American Standard Version shows that to be true. "Do we then make law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish law." In claiming that "the law" is the Ten Commandments they lose their argument in this passage, for Paul does not use "the" before law in this verse. We do not make any la w of none effect through faith. Law here evidently is that universal rule of right and wrong that is binding on all nations and peoples of all time. That law is es-tablished by faith. But how do we establish law by faith? Certainly not in the sense that we set it up or make it binding. But if we come to the Lord Jesus Christ that we may be forgiven of sins committed against the universal moral law, do we not thereby show that we recognize its binding force?