KJV King James Version
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
WEB World English Bible
For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
ASV American Standard Version
for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.
Surrounding context — Romans 4
12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which [he had] being [yet] uncircumcised.
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.
14 For if they which are of the law [be] heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
16 Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might 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,
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
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Romans 5:13(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.Galatians 3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.Romans 3:19-20Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.1 Corinthians 15:56The sting of death [is] sin; and the strength of sin [is] the law.Romans 7:7-25What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.John 3:36He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.Galatians 3:19Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.Ephesians 5:6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.1 John 3:4Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.2 Corinthians 3:7-9But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which [glory] was to be done away:Romans 5:20-21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:Acts 17:30-31And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:John 15:22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.Romans 2:12-13For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;Romans 2:5-6But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;Ezekiel 7:19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.Deuteronomy 29:20-28The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
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