YLT
KJV
13. For 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.
ASV
13. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
ESV
13. For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
ERVEN
13. Abraham and his descendants received the promise that they would get the whole world. But Abraham did not receive that promise because he followed the law. He received that promise because he was right with God through his faith.
NLT
13. Clearly, God's promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was based not on his obedience to God's law, but on a right relationship with God that comes by faith.
WEB
13. 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.
NET
13. For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
NLV
13. God promised to give the world to him and to all his family after him. He did not make this promise because Abraham obeyed the Law. He promised to give the world to Abraham because he put his trust in God. This made him right with God.
HCSB
13. For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
LITV
13. For the promise was not through Law to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be the heir of the world, but through a righteousness of faith.
RV
13. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
NCV
13. Abraham and his descendants received the promise that they would get the whole world. He did not receive that promise through the law, but through being right with God by his faith.
MKJV
13. For 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.
AKJV
13. For 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.
LXXEN
KJV
13. For 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.
AMP
13. For the promise to Abraham or his posterity, that he should inherit the world, did not come through [observing the commands of] the Law but through the righteousness of faith. [Gen. 17:4-6; 22:16-18.]
KJVP
13. For G1063 CONJ the G3588 T-NSF promise G1860 N-NSF , that he G846 P-GSM should be G1511 V-PXN the G3588 T-NSN heir G2818 N-ASM of G3588 T-GSM the G3588 T-GSM world G2889 N-GSM , [ was ] not G3756 PRT-N to Abraham G11 N-PRI , or G2228 PRT to his G3588 T-DSN seed G4690 N-DSN , through G1223 PREP the law G3551 N-GSM , but G235 CONJ through G1223 PREP the righteousness G1343 N-GSF of faith G4102 N-GSF .
YLT
13. For not through law [is] the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;
ASV
13. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
WEB
13. 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.
NASB
13. It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world, but through the righteousness that comes from faith.
ESV
13. For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
RV
13. For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
RSV
13. The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world, did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
NKJV
13. For the promise that he would be the heir of the world [was] not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
MKJV
13. For 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.
AKJV
13. For 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.
NRSV
13. For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
NIV
13. It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
NIRV
13. Abraham and his family received a promise. God promised that Abraham would receive the world. It would not come to him because he obeyed the law. It would come because of his faith, which made him right with God.
NLT
13. Clearly, God's promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was based not on his obedience to God's law, but on a right relationship with God that comes by faith.
MSG
13. That famous promise God gave Abraham--that he and his children would possess the earth--was not given because of something Abraham did or would do. It was based on God's decision to put everything together for him, which Abraham then entered when he believed.
GNB
13. When God promised Abraham and his descendants that the world would belong to him, he did so, not because Abraham obeyed the Law, but because he believed and was accepted as righteous by God.
NET
13. For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
ERVEN
13. Abraham and his descendants received the promise that they would get the whole world. But Abraham did not receive that promise because he followed the law. He received that promise because he was right with God through his faith.