Romans 4:15

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“because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.”

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“because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
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“for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither <FI>is<Fi> transgression.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 4:15 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 32:14Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
  2. Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
  3. 2 Kings 22:13“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
  4. Jeremiah 4:8So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
  5. Lamentations 2:22You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
  6. Ezekiel 7:19They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
  7. Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
  8. John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
  9. John 15:22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.
  10. Acts 17:30Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
  11. Romans 1:17For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
  12. Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  13. Romans 2:12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
  14. Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
  15. Romans 5:13For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
  16. Romans 5:20The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
  17. Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.”
  18. 1 Corinthians 15:56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
  19. 2 Corinthians 3:7Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
  20. Galatians 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
  21. Galatians 3:19Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
  22. Ephesians 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
  23. Colossians 3:6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
  24. 1 John 3:4Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

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