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

God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith and for faith ??as it is written, Now by faith shall the righteous live.

In your stubbornness and impenitence of heart you are simply storing up anger for yourself on the Day of anger, when the just doom of God is revealed.

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

Sin was indeed in the world before the Law, but sin is never counted in the absence of law.

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin ??23 he who hates me hates my Father also.

Such ages of ignorance God overlooked, but he now charges men that they are all everywhere to repent,

Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory ??so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face;

Whereas a curse rests on all who rely upon obedience to the Law; for it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not hold by all that is written in the book of the law, to perform it.

Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

things that bring down the anger of God on the sons of disobedience.

Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness: sin is lawlessness,

calling to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb;

A sharp sword issues from his lips, wherewith to smite the nations; he will shepherd them with an iron flail, and trample the winepress of the passion of the anger of God almighty.

Where

All who sin outside the Law will perish outside the Law, and all who sin under the Law will be condemned by the Law.

Sin was indeed in the world before the Law, but sin is never counted in the absence of law.

General references

He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?"

Now you are the children of the Promise, brothers, like Isaac;