Romans 4:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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,

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  • Rom 9:8 : 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
  • Rom 15:8 : 8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises [made] unto the fathers:
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Rom 3:24-26 : 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
  • Gal 3:22 : 22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
  • Eph 2:5 : 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
  • Eph 2:8 : 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
  • Titus 3:7 : 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
  • Heb 6:13-19 : 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
  • 2 Pet 1:10 : 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
  • Rom 4:11 : 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had yet] being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 ¶ Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • Gal 3:7-9 : 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

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  • Rom 4:9-15
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    9¶ [Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

    10How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had yet] being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

    12And 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.

    13For 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.

    14For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

    15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6¶ Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

    7Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

    8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.

    9So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

  • Rom 4:17-19
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    17¶ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

    18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

    19And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

  • Gal 3:14-18
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    14That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    15Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though [it be] but a man's covenant, yet [if it be] confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

    16Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

    17And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

    18For if the inheritance [be] of the law, [it is] no more of promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise.

  • Rom 4:1-5
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    1¶ What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

    2For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God.

    3For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

    4Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

    5But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten [son],

    18Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

  • Gal 2:16
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    16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

  • Gal 4:28
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    28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

  • Gal 4:22
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    22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

  • Acts 3:25
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    25Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

  • Rom 9:7-8
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    7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

    8That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where [is] boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

    28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

  • Gal 3:21-22
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    21[Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

    22But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

  • Gen 17:4
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    4¶ As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

  • Gal 3:26
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    26For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 3:30
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    30Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

  • Rom 4:22-24
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    22And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

    23¶ Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

    24But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

  • Rom 3:22
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    22Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

  • Rom 9:5
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    5Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

  • Rom 9:10
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    10And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac;

  • Gal 3:11
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    11But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

  • Rom 9:30
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    30¶ What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

  • Gen 18:18
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    18Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

  • Heb 11:11
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    11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.