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Romans 4:15 Cross-References
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“Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.”
Romans 4:15 (KJV)
Commentary on Romans 4:15
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Paul explains why law cannot be the means of inheritance: ho gar nomos orgēn katergazetai (ὁ γὰρ νόμος ὀργὴν κατεργάζεται, "for the law works wrath"). The verb katergazetai (κατεργάζεται) means accomplishes, produces, brings to completion. Law's function is not to enable obedience but to reveal and even provoke disobedience, thereby incurring divine wrath (cf. 3:20, 5:20, 7:7-13). This is not law's fault but humanity's—the law is holy, righteous, and good (7:12), but we are sinful.The explanatory clause hou gar ouk ...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Romans 4:15
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“sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.”
“Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.{Deuteronomy 27:26}”
“and the power of sin is the law.”
“it speaks to those who are under the law”
“I wouldn't have known sin”
“but one who disobeys{The same word can be translated disobeys or disbelieves in this context.} the Son won't see life”
“until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.”
“written engraved on stones”
“Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.”
“the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.”