New Revised Standard Version
Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law.

Contemporary English Version
Does the Law disagree with God's promises? No, it doesn't! If any law could give life to us, we could become acceptable to God by obeying that law.

New American Bible
Is the law then opposed to the promises [of God]? Of course not! For if a law had been given that could bring life, then righteousness would in reality come from the law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.

Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.

the law.

Matthew 5:17-20 Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. . . .

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

Romans 7:7-13 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? God forbid! But I do not know sin, but by the law. For I had not known concupiscence, if the law did not say: Thou shalt not covet. . . .

God forbid.

Galatians 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid!

Romans 3:4,6 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged. . . .

for.

Galatians 2:19,21 For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross. . . .

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

righteousness.

Romans 3:21,22 But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. . . .

Romans 9:31 But Israel, by following after the law of justice, is not come unto the law of justice.

Romans 10:3-6 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God. . . .

Philippians 3:6-9 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame. . . .

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith.