Romans 4:13
“For the promise that he should be the heire of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.”
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Romans 4:13 Context
11And hee receiued the signe of circumcision, a seale of the righteousnesse of the faith, which hee had yet being vncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that beleeue, though they be not circumcised; that righteousnesse might be imputed vnto them also: 12And the father of circumcision, to them who are not of the circumcision onely, but also walke in the steppes of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet vncircumcised. 13For the promise that he should be the heire of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith. 14For if they which are of the law be heires, faith is made voide, and the promise made of none effect. 15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.
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Other Translations for Romans 4:13
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.
- King James Version
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
For [it was] not by law that the promise was to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of [the] world, but by righteousness of faith.
- Darby Bible
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.
- Webster's Bible
Again, the promise that he should inherit the world did not come to Abraham or his posterity conditioned by Law, but by faith-righteousness.
- Weymouth Bible
For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- World English Bible
For not bi the lawe is biheest to Abraham, or to his seed, that he schulde be eir of the world, but bi the riytwisnesse of feith.
- Wycliffe Bible
For not through law [is] the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for Romans 4:13
4:13 The promise, that he should be the heir of the world - Is the same as that he should be the father of all nations, namely, of those in all nations who receive the blessing. The whole world was promised to him and them conjointly. Christ is the heir of the world, and of all things; and so are all Abraham's seed, all that believe in him with the faith of Abraham
People's Bible Notes for Romans 4:13
Ro 4:13 For the promise. The reference is to the substance of various promises to Abraham for himself and his seed. See Ge 12:7 13:14 15:18. [Was] not . . . through the law. Was not through law, the article being wanting in the Greek. No body of law had been given. The Mosaic law was given many years afterward. The law of circumcision had not been enacted. It was through the righteousness of faith, not of law, or works of law, that Abraham secured the promise.