Romans 4:15

Because the law brings wrath: but where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Revised King James 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 those who are of the law are heirs, then faith is made void, and the promise is made invalid:

16Therefore it is by faith, that it might be by grace; so that the promise might be certain to all his descendants; not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

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Cross References

John 3:36He who believes in the Son has eternal life: but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God rests upon him.

Acts 17:30Those times of ignorance God overlooked; but now he commands all men everywhere to repent:

Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourself wrath on the day of wrath when the righteous judgment of God shall be revealed;

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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