Romans 4:14

For if they which are of the Lawe, be heires, faith is made voide, and the promise is made of none effect.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 the promise that he should be the heire of the worlde, was not giuen to Abraham, or to his seede, through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

15For the Lawe causeth wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.

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Cross References

Numbers 30:12And her husband hath heard it, and helde his peace cocerning her, not disalowing her, then all her vowes shall stand, and euery bond, wherewith she bound her selfe, shall stand in effect.

Psalms 119:126It is time for thee Lord to worke: for they haue destroyed thy Lawe.

Jeremiah 19:7And I will bring the counsell of Iudah and Ierusalem to nought in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seeke their liues: and their carkeises will I giue to be meate for ye foules of the heauen, and to the beastes of the fielde.

Romans 4:16Therefore it is by faith, that it might come by grace, and the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Lawe: but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

Galatians 3:18For if the inheritance be of the Lawe, it is no more by the promise, but God gaue it freely vnto Abraham by promise.

Philippians 3:9And might bee founde in him, that is, not hauing mine owne righteousnesse, which is of the Lawe, but that which is through the faith of Christ, euen the righteousnesse which is of God through 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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