Romans 4:14

For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

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In The King James Version

For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

In Context

13For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

15for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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Cross References

Numbers 30:12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and Jehovah will forgive her.

Psalms 119:126It is time for Jehovah to work; [For] they have made void thy law.

Jeremiah 19:7And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

Romans 4:16For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

Galatians 3:18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.

Philippians 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, [even] that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

Matthew Henry on Romans 4:10-23

The Case of Abraham. ( a. d. 58.) 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not… Read the whole commentary →

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