Romans 4:14

For if they who are of the law were heirs, faith would be made void, and the promise of no force.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 to Abraham and to his seed, that he should become the heir of the world, was not by the law, but by the righteousness of his faith.

15For the law is a worker of wrath; because where no law is, there is no transgression of law.

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Cross References

Romans 4:16Wherefore, it is by the faith which is by grace, that we are justified: so that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all:

Galatians 3:18And if the inheritance were by the law, it would not be by promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Philippians 3:9and be found in him; since my righteousness is not now that from the law, but that which is from faith in the Messiah, that is, the righteousness which is from God;

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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