Parallel Verses
Daniel Mace New Testament
for if they only who are of the law have right of possession, faith is made useless, and the promise becomes of no effect.
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Holman Bible
If those who are of the law are heirs,
International Standard Version
For if those who were given the Law are the heirs, then faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
A Conservative Version
For if those from law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been made useless.
American Standard Version
For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:
Amplified
If those who are [followers] of the Law are [the true] heirs [of Abraham], then faith [leading to salvation] is of no effect and void, and the promise [of God] is nullified.
An Understandable Version
For if [only] those who are obedient to the law deserve an inheritance, [then their] faith [in God] is for nothing, and God's promise is nullified.
Anderson New Testament
For if they that are of the law be heirs, the faith is made powerless, and the promise is unmeaning;
Bible in Basic English
For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;
Common New Testament
For if those who are of the law are to be the heirs, faith has no value and the promise is void,
Darby Translation
For if they which are of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect.
Godbey New Testament
For if the heirs were by the law, faith has been made void, and the promise vitiated.
Goodspeed New Testament
For if it is the adherents of the Law who are to possess it, faith is nullified and the promise amounts to nothing!
John Wesley New Testament
For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise of no effect.
Julia Smith Translation
For if they of the law, heirs, faith was made void, and the promise left inactive:
King James 2000
For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For if those of the law [are] heirs, faith is rendered void and the promise is nullified.
Modern King James verseion
For if they of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is made of no effect;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if they which are of the law be heirs, then is faith but vain, and the promise of none effect.
Moffatt New Testament
For if it is adherents of the Law who are heirs, then faith is empty of all meaning and the promise is void.
Montgomery New Testament
For if those who are righteous through law are heirs, faith is empty and the promise becomes void.
NET Bible
For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.
New Heart English Bible
For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
Noyes New Testament
For if they that are of the Law are heirs, then faith becometh a vain thing, and the promise is made of no effect.
Sawyer New Testament
For if the subjects of the law are heirs, the faith is done away and the promise abrogated.
The Emphasized Bible
For, if they who are of law are heirs, made void is faith and of no effect is the promise.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith becomes vain, and the promise is useless:
Twentieth Century New Testament
If those who take their stand on Law are to inherit the world, then faith is robbed of its meaning and the promise comes to nothing!
Webster
For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no effect.
Weymouth New Testament
For if it is the righteous through Law who are heirs, then faith is useless and the promise counts for nothing.
Williams New Testament
For if the law party is to possess the world, then faith has been nullified and the promise has been made null and void.
World English Bible
For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
Worrell New Testament
For, if those who are of the law are heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been brought to nought;
Worsley New Testament
for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.
Youngs Literal Translation
for if they who are of law are heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 4:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Promise To Abraham Secured Through Faith
13 Besides, the promise that he should possess the world, was not made to Abraham, or to his posterity in consideration of the law, but with regard to the righteousness by faith. 14 for if they only who are of the law have right of possession, faith is made useless, and the promise becomes of no effect. 15 because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.
Phrases
Cross References
Romans 3:31
do we then make the law useless by our doctrine of faith? by no means; on the contrary, it is we that observe the law.
Romans 4:16
therefore the inheritance is of faith, that it might be meerly of favour, to the end the promise might be assured to all his posterity, not to that part only who have the law, but to that also who have the faith of Abraham, the father of us all, as it is written,
Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if justification be by the law, Christ died to no purpose.
Galatians 3:18-24
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.
Galatians 5:4
Christ is of no use to you, whoever of you seek to be justified by the law; you have lost all interest in the gospel-dispensation.
Philippians 3:9
and be his true disciple, not professing that justification, which is derived from the law, but that which is from the gospel,
Hebrews 7:19
for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence.
Hebrews 7:28
for the law appointed frail mortals to be high priests, but the oracle pronounc'd with an oath, which was since the law, established the son, who is crown'd with immortal perfections.