Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.
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,
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.
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.
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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References
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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 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 14 For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified. 15 For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
Phrases
Cross References
Numbers 30:12
But if her husband clearly nullifies them when he hears them, then whatever she says by way of vows or obligations will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the Lord will release her from them.
Numbers 30:15
But if he should nullify them after he has heard them, then he will bear her iniquity."
Psalm 119:126
It is time for the Lord to act -- they break your law!
Isaiah 55:11
In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend."
Jeremiah 19:7
In this place I will thwart the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. I will deliver them over to the power of their enemies who are seeking to kill them. They will die by the sword at the hands of their enemies. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild beasts to eat.
Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
Romans 4:16
For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants -- not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
Galatians 2:21
I do not set aside God's grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 3:18-24
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.
Galatians 5:4
You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ's faithfulness -- a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ's faithfulness.
Hebrews 7:19
for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
Hebrews 7:28
For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.