Romans 4:15

The law Sin

¹³ For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

¹⁴ For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

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

¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

¹⁷ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
KJV: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
WEB: For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
ASV: for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.
DARBY: For law works wrath; but where no law is neither [is there] transgression.
BLB: For the law brings about wrath; and where there is no law, neither [is there] transgression.

ÅB: Loven fører til vrede, for der det ikke er noen lov er det heller ingen overtredelse.
OTB: fordi loven resulterer i vrede. Og der det ikke er noen lov, er det ingen overtredelse.
B1930: for loven virker vrede; men hvor det ikke er nogen lov, er det heller ingen overtredelse.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Romans 5:13
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
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Galatians 3:10
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
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Romans 3:19–20
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
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1 Corinthians 15:56
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
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Romans 7:7–25
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
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Galatians 3:19
Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
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John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
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2 Corinthians 3:7–9
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
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