Romans 4:15

for the Law works wrath; for where law is not, neither [is] transgression.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14for if they who are of law [are] heirs, faith has been made void, and the promise has been made useless;

16Because of this [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which [is] of the Law only, but also to that which [is] of the faith of Abraham,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:20YHWH is not willing to be propitious to him, for then the anger of YHWH smokes, also His zeal, against that man, and all the oath which is written in this scroll has lain down on him, and YHWH has blotted out his name from under the heavens,

Jeremiah 4:8For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, || For the fierce anger of YHWH has not turned back from us.

Ezekiel 7:19They cast their silver into out-places, || And their gold becomes impurity. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them, || In a day of the wrath of YHWH, || They do not satisfy their soul, || And they do not fill their bowels, || For it has been the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

John 3:36he who is believing in the Son has continuous life; and he who is not believing the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Acts 17:30therefore indeed God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to convert,

Romans 2:5But according to your hardness and impenitent heart, you treasure up wrath to yourself in [the] 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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