Romans 4:15
“Because the law worketh wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression.”
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Romans 4:15 Context
13For the promise that he should be the heire of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith. 14For if they which are of the law be heires, faith is made voide, and the promise made of none effect. 15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no Lawe is, there is no transgression. 16Therefore it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all, 17(As it is written, I haue made thee a father of many nations) before him whom he beleeued, euen God who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which bee not, as though they were,
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Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, [there is] no transgression.
- King James Version
for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.
- New American Standard Version (1995)