New Revised Standard Version
If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.

Contemporary English Version
If Abraham and his descendants were given this promise because they had obeyed a law, then faith would mean nothing, and the promise would be worthless.

New American Bible
For if those who adhere to the law are the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the promise is made of no effect.

For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void: the promise is made of no effect.

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Romans 4:16 Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm 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,

Galatians 2:21 I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Galatians 3:18-24 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise. . . .

Galatians 5:4 You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace.

Philippians 3:9 And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

Hebrews 7:19,28 For the law brought nothing to perfection: but a bringing in of a better hope, by which we draw nigh to God. . . .

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Romans 3:31 Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

Numbers 30:12,15 But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful to her. . . .

Psalm 119:126 It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Jeremiah 19:7 And I will defeat the counsel of Juda and of Jerusalem in this place: and I will destroy them with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and I will give their carcasses to be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.