Romans 4:14 Cross References - Williams

¹⁴ For if the law party is to possess the world, then faith has been nullified and the promise has been made null and void.

³¹ Do we then through faith make null and void the law? Not at all; instead, we confirm it.

¹⁶ So it is conditioned on faith, that it might be in accordance with God's unmerited favor, so that the promise might be in force for all the descendants of Abraham, not only for those who belong to the law party but also for those who belong to the faith group of Abraham. He is the father of us all,

²¹ I never can nullify the unmerited favor of God. For if right standing with God could come through law, then Christ died for nothing.

¹⁸ For if our inheritance depends on the law, it can no longer depend on the promise. But it was by promise that God so graciously bestowed it upon Abraham. ¹⁹ Then what about the law? It was added later on to increase transgressions, until the descendant to whom the promise was made should come, enacted through the agency of angels in the person of an intermediary. ²⁰ Though an intermediary implies more than one party, yet God is only one. ²¹ Is the law then contrary to God's promises? Of course not. For if a law had been given that was able to impart life, surely, then, right standing would have come through law. ²² But the Scripture pictures all mankind as prisoners of sin, so that the promised blessing through faith in Christ might be given to those who have faith. ²³ But before this faith came, we were kept locked up under the law, in preparation for the faith which was to be unveiled. ²⁴ So the law has been our attendant to lead us to Christ, so that we might through faith obtain right standing with God.

⁴ You people, whoever you are among you, who try to get into right standing with God, through law have cut yourselves off from Christ, you have missed the way of God's favor.

⁹ and be actually in union with Him, not having a supposed right standing with God which depends on my doing what the law commands, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the real right standing with God which originates from Him and rests on faith.

¹⁹ for the law had never made anything perfect -- and so a better hope is brought to us, through which we have approach to God.

²⁸ For the law appoints imperfect men as high priests, but the assertion about the taking of an oath, which was spoken after the time of the law, appoints a Son who is perfectly qualified to be High Priest forever.