Romans 4:14

New Century Version

If people could receive what God promised by following the law, then faith is worthless. And God’s promise to Abraham is worthless,

Cross References

Psalm 119:126

Lord, it is time for you to do something, because people have disobeyed your teachings.

Isaiah 55:11

The same thing is true of the words I speak. They will not return to me empty. They make the things happen that I want to happen, and they succeed in doing what I send them to do.

Jeremiah 19:7

“ ‘At this place I will ruin the plans of the people of Judah and Jerusalem. The enemy will chase them, and I will have them killed with swords. I will make their dead bodies food for the birds and wild animals.

Numbers 30:12

But if her husband hears about it and cancels it, she does not have to do what she said. Her husband has canceled it, so the Lord will free her from it.

Numbers 30:15

But if he cancels them long after he heard about them, he is responsible if she breaks her promise.”

Romans 3:31

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.

Romans 4:16

So people receive God’s promise by having faith. This happens so the promise can be a free gift. Then all of Abraham’s children can have that promise. It is not only for those who live under the law of Moses but for anyone who lives with faith like that of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

1 Corinthians 1:13

Christ has been divided up into different groups! Did Paul die on the cross for you? No! Were you baptized in the name of Paul? No!

Galatians 2:21

By saying these things I am not going against God’s grace. Just the opposite, if the law could make us right with God, then Christ’s death would be useless.

Galatians 5:4

If you try to be made right with God through the law, your life with Christ is over—you have left God’s grace.

Philippians 3:9

and to belong to him. Now I am right with God, not because I followed the law, but because I believed in Christ. God uses my faith to make me right with him.

Hebrews 7:19

The law of Moses could not make anything perfect. But now a better hope has been given to us, and with this hope we can come near to God.

Hebrews 7:28

The law chooses high priests who are people with weaknesses, but the word of God’s oath came later than the law. It made God’s Son to be the high priest, and that Son has been made perfect forever.