Romans 4:15

For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

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

In Context

14For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;

16For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

Jeremiah 4:8For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

Ezekiel 7:19They will put out their silver into the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they will not get their desire or have food for their need: because it has been the cause of their falling into sin.

John 3:36He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

Acts 17:30Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

Romans 2:5But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

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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