Romans 4:15
Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Updated King James 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 which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of no effect:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Jeremiah 4:8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
Ezekiel 7:19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.
John 3:36He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.
Acts 17:30And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent:
Romans 2:5But after your hardness and refusing to repent heart treasure up unto yourself wrath against the day of wrath and 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 →