King James Version
Romans 4:14 in the King James Version says “For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:” — study this verse from Romans chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:”
Romans 4:14 · KJV
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
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.
For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“For”
G1063properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
“they which are of”
G1537a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause literal or figurative; direct
“the law”
G3551law (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially, (of moses (including the volume); also of the gospel), or figurat
“be heirs”
G2818a sharer by lot, i.e., inheritor (literally or figuratively); by implication, a possessor
“is made void”
G2758to make empty, i.e., (figuratively) to abase, neutralize, falsify
“faith”
G4102persuasion, i.e., credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of god or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon christ
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“made of none effect”
G2673to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively
“the promise”
G1860an announcement (for information, assent or pledge; especially a divine assurance of good)
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