Romans 4:13

World English Bible (2000)

For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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  • Gal 3:29 : 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
  • Gen 17:4-6 : 4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. 5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
  • Gen 22:17-18 : 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. 18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
  • Ps 2:8 : 8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
  • Ps 72:11 : 11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.
  • Rom 9:8 : 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.
  • Gal 3:16-18 : 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ. 17 Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.
  • Gen 12:3 : 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."
  • Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

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  • Rom 4:14-20
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    14For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.

    15For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

    16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may 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.

    17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

    18Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

    19Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

    20Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

  • Gal 3:14-18
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    80%

    14that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

    15Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

    16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

    17Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

    18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    78%

    9Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

    10How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

    12He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

  • Rom 4:1-6
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    1What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

    2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

    3For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

    4Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

    5But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

    6Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

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

    7Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

    8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

    9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Gal 3:21
    75%

    21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

  • Rom 9:7-8
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    7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

  • Gal 3:29
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    29If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

  • Rom 9:30
    73%

    30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

  • Rom 4:22-23
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    22Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

    23Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

  • Rom 3:27-28
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    27Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

    28We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

  • Gal 3:11-12
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    11Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith."

    12The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

  • Gal 2:16
    71%

    16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

  • Heb 11:18
    71%

    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Heb 6:13
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    13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

  • Gal 4:22-23
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    22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

    23However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

  • Phil 3:9
    70%

    9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

  • Rom 3:22
    70%

    22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

  • Heb 7:6
    70%

    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

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

  • Rom 10:4
    70%

    4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

  • Acts 7:5
    70%

    5He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

  • Gal 5:5
    69%

    5For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

  • Gen 15:6
    69%

    6He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.