"For if they which are of the law {be} heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:" — Romans 4:14

Romans 4:14 · KJV

“For if they which are of the law {be} heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:”

— Romans 4:14

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, {was} not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Verse 15

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, {there is} no transgression.

Romans 4 — Context

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which {he had} being {yet} uncircumcised.

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, {was} not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For if they which are of the law {be} heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, {there is} no transgression.

Therefore {it is} of faith, that {it might be} by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Cross References

Galatians 3:18-24

For if the inheritance {be} of the law, {it is} no more of promise: but God gave {it} to Abraham by promise.

Hebrews 7:19

For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope {did}; by the which we draw nigh unto God. {the bringing...: or, it was the bringing in}

Philippians 3:9

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Hebrews 7:28

For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, {maketh} the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. {consecrated: Gr. perfected}

Romans 4:16

Galatians 2:21

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness {come} by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Romans 3:31

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Isaiah 55:11

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper {in the thing} whereto I sent it.