This is Paul in Romans 3
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
If we have the spirit in our hearts we will obey God; and his laws will be in our hearts and in our minds (Hebrews 10)
Paul did not write Hebrew but regardless, the law was established, yes, BUT NOT FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS SAKE!!!!!
You guys have got to start paying attention to what you read!
This problem is, I think, a symptom of the way the modern church does bible study. They read one or two verses and then go around the room and ask everyone to say something about what they think the verse is teaching. So the whole room is "educated" one verse at a time by a whole room full of people who don't know any more about the bible than they do. That isn't the way you're supposed to study anything much less something as important as the book God wrote.
This is also a major reason I refuse to proof text with people. When I make a Biblical argument I try to provide a whole body of text from more than one book that demonstrates a common theme so that people get a view of the big picture and understand the context of what is being said.
If I wanted to argue that the Law should be followed today, I could quote Paul too!...
1 Timothy 1:8 But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully,
But such a quote completely ignores the context of that statement as does your quote.
The law is not for us it is against us. The law is there to convict us, to kill us. The law is for the unbeliever! See the very next few verses...
1 Timothy 1:9 knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust.
I ask again...
How much more explicit do you want the bible to be? How can anyone stand in defense of any position that want to place any believer under the law? Paul states it over and over and over again and says it in every imaginable way.
Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth,[a] before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Galatians 4: 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? ...... 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
Galatians 5:2
Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
The Twelve writing to Paul's converts....
15:24 Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “You must be circumcised and keep the law” —to whom we gave no such commandment—
Romans 4:5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
Galatians 3:1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth,[a] before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Galatians 4: 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? ...... 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
Galatians 5:2
Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Galatians 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
The Twelve writing to Paul's converts....
15:24 Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “You must be circumcised and keep the law” —to whom we gave no such commandment—
Romans 4:5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness,
And I could go on quoting verse after verse until I basically quoted almost the entirety of Paul's epistles. Paul's theme, the most basic point of his ministry is faith not works, Love not Law. DO NOT PLACE YOURSELF UNDER THE LAW! That's the starting point! That's the milk!
Resting in Him,
Clete