Romans 4:14

For if they who are of the law were heirs, faith would be vain, and the promise be abolished.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 unto Abraham and to his seed that he should be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

15For the law is the worker of wrath. For where there is no law, there also is no transgression of the law.

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Cross References

Romans 4:16Therefore it is by faith, which is through grace, that we are justified, that the promise might be firm unto all his seed; not to that which is of the law only, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all:

Galatians 3:18But if the inheritance was by the law, it could not have been by the promise; but Aloha gave it unto Abraham by promise.

Philippians 3:9and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is by the faith of the Meshiha, which is righteousness that is from Aloha:

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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