Romans 4:13-15

The Promise Realized Through Faith

13 For e the promise to Abraham and his offspring f that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 g For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For h the law brings wrath, but i where there is no law j there is no transgression.

  1. Cross References
    Galatians 3:16
    Now the promises were made to Abraham and to hi...
    Hebrews 6:15
    And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obta...
    Hebrews 6:17
    So when God desired to show more convincingly t...
    Hebrews 7:6
    But this man who does not have his descent from...
    Hebrews 11:9
    By faith he went to live in the land of promise...
    Hebrews 11:17
    By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered u...
    Romans 9:8
    This means that it is not the children of the f...
    Acts 13:32
    And we bring you the good news that what God pr...
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 17:4 - 6
    Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.
  3. Cross References
    Galatians 3:17 - 18
    This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
  4. Cross References
    Romans 7:7
    What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet.
    Romans 7:10 - 25
    The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
    2 Corinthians 3:7
    Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses' face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end.
    2 Corinthians 3:9
    For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
    Galatians 3:10
    For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.
  5. Cross References
    Romans 3:20
    For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
  6. Cross References
    Galatians 3:19
    Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.
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