is made void: the
promise is made of no effect.

Be heirs... That is, if they alone, who follow the ceremonies of thelaw,
be heirs of the blessings promised to Abraham; then that faith which was
so much praised in him, will be found to be of little value. And the
very promise will be made void, by which he was promised to be the
father, not of the Jews only, but of all nations of believers.

4:15. For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is
there transgression.

The law worketh wrath... The law, abstracting from faith and grace,
worketh wrath occasionally, by being an occasion of many transgressions,
which provoke God's wrath.

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,

4:17. (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations),
before God, whom he believed: who quickeneth the dead and calleth those
things that are not, as those that are.

4:18. Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the
father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So
shall thy seed be.

4:19. And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own
body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the
dead womb of Sara.

4:20. In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust: but was
strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

4:21. Most fully knowing that whatsoever he has promised, he is able
also to perform.

4:22. And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

4:23. Now it is not written only for him that it was reputed to him
unto justice,

4:24. But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him
that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,

4:25. Who was delivered up for our sins and rose again for our
justification.

Romans Chapter 5

The grounds we have for hope in Christ. Sin and death came by Adam,
grace and life by Christ.

5:1. Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God,
through our Lord Jesus Christ:

5:2. By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein
we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

5:3. And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that
tribulation worketh patience;

5:4. And patience trial; and trial hope;

5:5. And hope confound