Parallel Verses
Amplified
For the Law results in [God’s] wrath [against sin], but where there is no law, there is no violation [of it either].
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Holman Bible
For the law produces wrath.
International Standard Version
for the Law produces wrath. Now where there is no Law, neither can there be any violation of it.
A Conservative Version
For the law works wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
American Standard Version
for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
An Understandable Version
For the law brings [God's] wrath [i.e., because of man's failure to obey it perfectly], but where there is no law, there is no [responsibility for] sin.
Anderson New Testament
for the law inflicts punishment; for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Bible in Basic English
For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.
Common New Testament
because the law brings wrath, for where there is no law there is no transgression.
Daniel Mace New Testament
because the effect of the law is punishment: for if there had been no law, there could have been no transgression.
Darby Translation
For law works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression.
Godbey New Testament
For the law works out wrath: for where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Goodspeed New Testament
For the Law only brings down God's wrath; where there is no law, there is no violation of it.
John Wesley New Testament
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Julia Smith Translation
For the law works wrath: for where is no law, no transgression.
King James 2000
Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the law produces wrath, but where [there] is no law, neither [is there] transgression.
Modern King James verseion
because the Law works out wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Because the law causeth wrath. For where no law is, there is no transgression.
Moffatt New Testament
(What the Law produces is the Wrath, not the promise of God; where there is no law, there is no transgression either.)
Montgomery New Testament
For law works wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
NET Bible
For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
New Heart English Bible
For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
Noyes New Testament
For the Law is the cause of wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.
Sawyer New Testament
For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.
The Emphasized Bible
For, the law, worketh out anger, but, where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
for the law causeth wrath: for where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Law entails punishment; but, where no Law exists, no breach of it is possible.
Webster
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Weymouth New Testament
For the Law inflicts punishment; but where no Law exists, there can be no violation of Law.
Williams New Testament
For the law results in wrath alone, but where there is no law, there can be no violation of it.
World English Bible
For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
Worrell New Testament
for the law works wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Worsley New Testament
Now the law worketh wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.
Youngs Literal Translation
for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 4:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Promise To Abraham Secured Through Faith
14 If those who are [followers] of the Law are [the true] heirs [of Abraham], then faith [leading to salvation] is of no effect and void, and the promise [of God] is nullified. 15 For the Law results in [God’s] wrath [against sin], but where there is no law, there is no violation [of it either]. 16 Therefore, [inheriting] the promise depends entirely on faith [that is, confident trust in the unseen God], in order that it may be given as an act of grace [His unmerited favor and mercy], so that the promise will be [legally] guaranteed to all the descendants [of Abraham]—not only for those [Jewish believers] who keep the Law, but also for those [Gentile believers] who share the faith of Abraham, who is the [spiritual] father of us all—
Phrases
Cross References
Galatians 3:10
For all who depend on the Law [seeking justification and salvation by obedience to the Law and the observance of rituals] are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed (condemned to destruction) is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, so as to practice them.”
Romans 5:13
Sin was [committed] in the world before the Law [was given], but sin is not charged [against anyone] when there is no law [against it].
1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin [by which it brings death] is the law;
Romans 7:7-25
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, if it had not been for the Law, I would not have recognized sin. For I would not have known [for example] about coveting [what belongs to another, and would have had no sense of guilt] if the Law had not [repeatedly] said, “You shall not covet.”
Galatians 3:19
Why, then, the Law [what was its purpose]? It was added [after the promise to Abraham, to reveal to people their guilt] because of transgressions [that is, to make people conscious of the sinfulness of sin], and [the Law] was ordained through angels and delivered to Israel by the hand of a mediator [Moses, the mediator between God and Israel, to be in effect] until the Seed would come to whom the promise had been made.
1 John 3:4
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness [ignoring God’s law by action or neglect or by tolerating wrongdoing—being unrestrained by His commands and His will].
Numbers 32:14
Now look, you [the tribes of Reuben and Gad] have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
Deuteronomy 29:20-28
the Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the Lord and His
2 Kings 22:13
“Go, inquire of the Lord for my sake and for the sake of the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book which has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to and obeyed the words of this book, so as to act in accordance with everything that is written concerning us.”
Jeremiah 4:8
“For this reason, put on sackcloth [for mourning],
Lament (mourn with expressions of grief for the dead) and wail,
For the fierce anger of the Lord
Has not turned back from us.”
Lamentations 2:22
You [Lord] called as in the day of an appointed feast
My terrors (dangers) on every side;
And there was no one who escaped or survived
In the day of the Lord’s anger.
Those I have cared for and brought up with tenderness,
My enemy annihilated them.
Ezekiel 7:19
They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will be [discarded] like something unclean; their silver and their gold shall not be able to save them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. These [things] cannot satisfy their soul nor fill their stomachs, for they have become their stumbling block and source of sin.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to rescue them
On the day of the Lord’s indignation and wrath.
And the whole earth will be consumed
In the fire of His jealous
For He shall make a full and complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
John 3:36
He who believes and trusts in the Son and accepts Him [as Savior] has eternal life [that is, already possesses it]; but he who does not believe the Son and chooses to reject Him, [disobeying Him and denying Him as Savior] will not see [eternal] life, but [instead] the wrath of God hangs over him continually.”
John 15:22
Acts 17:30-31
Therefore God overlooked and disregarded the former ages of ignorance; but now He commands all people everywhere to repent [that is, to change their old way of thinking, to regret their past sins, and to seek God’s purpose for their lives],
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed in a way that awakens more faith]. As it is written and forever remains written, “The just and upright shall live by faith.”
Romans 2:5-6
But because of your callous stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are [deliberately] storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Romans 2:12-13
For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without [regard to] the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged and condemned by the Law.
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that whatever the Law [of Moses] says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that [the excuses of] every mouth may be silenced [from protesting] and that all the world may be held accountable to God [and subject to His judgment].
Romans 5:20-21
But the Law came to increase and expand [the awareness of] the trespass [by defining and unmasking sin]. But where sin increased, [God’s remarkable, gracious gift of] grace [His unmerited favor] has surpassed it and increased all the more,
2 Corinthians 3:7-9
Now if the ministry of death, engraved in letters on stones [the covenant of the Law which led to death because of sin], came with such glory and splendor that the Israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, [a brilliance] that was fading,
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty arguments [that encourage you to sin], for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience [those who habitually sin].
Colossians 3:6
Because of these [sinful] things the [divine] wrath of God is coming
Revelation 6:16-17
and they called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the [righteous] wrath and indignation of the Lamb;
Revelation 19:15
From His mouth comes a sharp sword (His word) with which He may strike down the nations, and He will