Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Holman Bible
For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.
International Standard Version
For if the inheritance comes about through the Law, it no longer comes about through the promise. But it was through a promise that God so graciously gave it to Abraham.
A Conservative Version
For if the inheritance is from law, it is no longer from promise. But God has given it to Abraham through promise.
American Standard Version
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.
Amplified
For if the inheritance [of what was promised] is based on [observing] the Law [as these false teachers claim], it is no longer based on a promise; however, God granted it to Abraham [as a gift] by virtue of His promise.
An Understandable Version
For if the inheritance [of never ending life] can be obtained by [obeying the requirements of] the law of Moses, it would not come from the promise [of God]; but God provided [this inheritance] for Abraham according to [His] promise.
Anderson New Testament
For if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise: but God bestowed it on Abraham by promise.
Common New Testament
For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on a promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
Daniel Mace New Testament
now if the right to the inheritance be from the law, it is no longer founded upon the promise; altho' God made a donation of it to Abraham by promise.
Darby Translation
For if the inheritance be on the principle of law, it is no longer on the principle of promise; but God gave it in grace to Abraham by promise.
Godbey New Testament
For if the inheritance were by law, it is no more by promise: but God gave it to Abraham through the promise.
Goodspeed New Testament
If our inheritance rests on the Law, it has nothing to do with the promise. Yet it was as a promise that God bestowed it upon Abraham.
John Wesley New Testament
For if the inheritance be by the law, it is no more by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Julia Smith Translation
For if of the law the inheritance, no more of promise: and God has favored Abraham by promise.
King James 2000
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For if the inheritance [is] from the law, [it is] no longer from the promise, but God graciously gave [it] to Abraham through the promise.
Modern King James verseion
For if the inheritance is of Law, it is no more of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by way of promise.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if the inheritance come of the law, it cometh not of promise: but God gave it unto Abraham by promise.
Moffatt New Testament
If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.
Montgomery New Testament
For 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.
NET Bible
For if the inheritance is based on the law, it is no longer based on the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise.
New Heart English Bible
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
Noyes New Testament
for if the inheritance cometh from the Law, it ceaseth to be the consequence of the promise; but to Abraham God gave it by promise.
Sawyer New Testament
For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no longer by the promise. But God gave it to Abraham by the promise.
The Emphasized Bible
For, if, by law, is the inheritance, it is, no longer, by promise; but, unto Abraham, through promise, hath God favoured it.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more by promise; but to Abraham God gave it freely by promise.
Twentieth Century New Testament
If our heritage is the result of Law, then it has ceased to be the result of a promise. Yet God conferred it on Abraham by a promise.
Webster
For if the inheritance is by the law, it is no more by promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Weymouth New Testament
For if the inheritance comes through obedience to Law, it no longer comes because of a promise. But, as a matter of fact, God has granted it to Abraham in fulfilment of a promise.
Williams New Testament
For if our inheritance depends on the law, it can no longer depend on the promise. But it was by promise that God so graciously bestowed it upon Abraham.
World English Bible
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
Worrell New Testament
For, if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God has freely given it to Abraham through promise.
Worsley New Testament
For if the inheritance be from the law, it is no more from the promise: whereas God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Youngs Literal Translation
for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it.
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Galatians 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Law And Promise
17 Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect. 18 Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word. 19 What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.
Cross References
Psalm 105:6-12
O you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.
Psalm 105:42
For he kept in mind his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.
Micah 7:18-20
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
Luke 1:54-55
His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever,
Luke 1:72-73
To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,
Romans 4:13-16
For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 8:17
And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.
Galatians 2:21
I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.
Galatians 3:10
For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
Galatians 3:12
And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.
Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.
Galatians 3:26
Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.
Hebrews 6:12-15
So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.