Romans 4:15

Now the law worketh wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14for if they only that are of the law be heirs, faith is made useless, and the promise is become of no effect.

16And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might 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 3:36wherefore he that believeth on the Son, hath eternal life; and he that obeyeth not the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Acts 17:30Wherefore though God overlooked the times of this ignorance, He now requireth all men every where to repent.

Romans 2:5But by thy hardness and impenitence of heart thou art treasuring up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgement 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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