Romans 4:15

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Summary

Romans 4:15

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

Because

Where

Romans 2:12

Romans 5:13

General references

Luke 10:26

Galatians 4:28

Bible References

Because

For in the gospel God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."

But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are reserving wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

Certainly sin was in the world before the Law was given, but no record of sin is kept when there is no Law.

What should we say, then? Is the Law sinful? Of course not! In fact, I wouldn't have become aware of sin if it had not been for the Law. I wouldn't have known what it means to covet if the Law had not said, "You must not covet."

And now, look! You're acting just like your ancestors, like a brood of sinful men, who are provoking the fierce anger of the LORD against the Israelis one step at a time.

"The LORD won't forgive such a person. Instead, the zealous anger of the LORD will blaze against him. All the curses that were written in this book will fall on him. Then the LORD will wipe out his memory from under heaven.

"Go ask the LORD for me, for the people, and for all of Judah about what's written in this book that has been discovered, because the LORD's anger is burning against us, since our ancestors have not listened to the words written in this book and have not lived according to everything that is written concerning us."

So, put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, because the burning anger of the LORD has not turned away from us."

You have invited those who terrorize me to come around, as if today were a festival. No one has escaped or survived the time of the LORD's anger. My enemy has finished off those whom I cuddled and raised.

They'll fling their silver into the streets, and their gold will be cast away as impure. Their silver and gold won't be able to deliver them during the time of the LORD's wrath. They won't be able to satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs, because their iniquity has tripped them up."

Neither their silver nor their gold will deliver them in the Day of the LORD's wrath; but the entire land will be consumed by the fire of his jealousy, for he will bring the inhabitants of the land to a sudden end."

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.

Though God has overlooked those times of ignorance, he now commands everyone everywhere to repent,

Now death's stinger is sin, and sin's power is the Law.

Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses' face (because the glory was fading away from it),

Certainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!"

Do not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God becomes angry with those who disobey.

It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.

Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience.

They told the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb.

A sharp sword comes out of his mouth to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod and tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.

Where

For all who have sinned apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law.

Certainly sin was in the world before the Law was given, but no record of sin is kept when there is no Law.

General references

Jesus answered him, "What is written in the Law? What do you read there?"

So you, brothers, are children of the promise, like Isaac.