Romans 4:13-16 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⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹³ 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. ¹⁴ For if they which [are] of law be heirs, faith is made vain, and the promise made of no effect. ¹⁵ For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression. ¹⁶ Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham`s faith, who is father of us all,