Romans 4:14

For if those who are righteous through law are heirs, faith is empty and the promise becomes void.

Montgomery New Testament

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 heir of the world did not come to Abraham or to his posterity through law, but through faith- righteousness.

15For law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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Cross References

Romans 4:16This is why righteousness is of faith, that it may be a free gift; so that the promise stands firm to all Abraham’s posterity; not to his children of his faith. For in the sight of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead, and calls into being that which is not, Abraham is the father of us all both Jews and Gentiles,

Galatians 3:18For if the inheritance comes from law, it no longer comes from a promise; but God did give it as a free gift to Abraham by a promise.

Philippians 3:9and be found in him; not having my own righteousness of the Law, but that alone which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which comes from God, founded upon 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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