Romans 4:15

For the Law is the cause of wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.

Noyes Bible

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 are heirs, then faith becometh a vain thing, and the promise is made of no effect.

16Therefore the inheritance was made to depend on faith, that it might be a matter of grace; that the promise might be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is under the Law, but to that also which hath the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:8For this cause gird on sackcloth, Lament and howl! For the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.

Ezekiel 7:19Their silver shall they cast into the streets, And their gold shall be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them In the day of the wrath of Jehovah; Their hunger shall not be satisfied, Nor their body filled with it; For it was the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

John 3:36He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; and he that disobeyeth the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Acts 17:30The times indeed of ignorance God overlooked; but now commandeth all men every where to repent;

Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against the day of wrath and of the manifestation 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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