Romans 4:15

For the law is a worker of wrath; because where no law is, there is no transgression of law.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 the law were heirs, faith would be made void, and the promise of no force.

16Wherefore, it is by the faith which is by grace, that we are justified: so that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all:

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Cross References

John 3:36He that believeth on the Son, hath life eternal; but he who obeyeth not the Son, shall not see life. but the wrath of God will abide upon him.

Acts 17:30And the times of this error God hath made to pass away; and at the present time, he commandeth all men, that each individual, in every place, should repent.

Romans 2:5But, because of the hardness of thy unrepenting heart, thou art treasuring up a store of wrath against the day of wrath, and against 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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