Romans 4:15

for the law inflicts punishment; for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

In Context

14For if they that are of the law be heirs, the faith is made powerless, and the promise is unmeaning;

16Therefore, the inheritance is by faith, that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise may be sure to all his posterity, not to those only who are of the law, but to those, also, who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

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Cross References

John 3:36He that believes on the Son has eternal life. But he that believes not the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Acts 17:30Yet the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now, he commands all men everywhere to repent:

Romans 2:5But, according to your hard and impenitent heart, you treasure up to yourself wrath for a day of wrath, and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Matthew Henry on Romans 4:10-23

The Case of Abraham. ( a. d. 58.) 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not… Read the whole commentary →

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