Romans 4:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For the Law results in [divine] wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression [of it either].

American Standard Version (1901)

for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Common English Bible

The Law brings about wrath. But when there isn’t any law, there isn’t any violation of the law.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For the law works unto wrath. And where there is no law, there is no law-breaking.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Romans 4:15 Cross References

2 Kings 22:13

Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

Lamentations 2:22

Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side, and there was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD'S anger: those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land.

Numbers 32:14

And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.

John 3:36

He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Romans 1:17

For therein is revealed a righteousness of God by faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

Romans 5:13

for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

Galatians 3:10

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one which continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

Galatians 3:19

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 3:6

for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

1 John 3:4

Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness: and sin is lawlessness.

Revelation 19:15

And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.