Romans 4:14

For, if they who are of law are heirs, made void is faith and of no effect is the promise.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 means of law, doth the promise belong unto Abraham or unto his seed,—that he should be heir of the world; but, through a righteousness by faith.

15For, the law, worketh out anger, but, where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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Cross References

Numbers 30:12But if her husband, did make, them, of none effect, on the day he heard, nothing which came forth out of her lips—of her vows, or of the bond of her soul, shall stand,—her husband, made it of none effect, and Yahweh, will pardon her:

Psalms 119:126It is time that Yahweh should work, They have frustrated thy law!

Jeremiah 19:7And I will pour out 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 who seek their life,—

Romans 4:16For this cause, it is by faith, in order that it may be by way of favour, so that the promise is firm unto all the seed,—not unto that by the law only, but unto that also [which is such] by the faith of Abraham; who is father of us all,—

Galatians 3:18For, if, by law, is the inheritance, it is, no longer, by promise; but, unto Abraham, through promise, hath God favoured it.

Philippians 3:9And be found in him—not having a righteousness of my own, that which is by law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is, of God, upon my 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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