Romans 4:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ For the Law results in [divine] wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression [of it either].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ for the law worketh wrath; but where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ The Law brings about wrath. But when there isn’t any law, there isn’t any violation of the law.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ For the law works unto wrath. And where there is no law, there is no law-breaking.

Romans 4:15 Cross References

Romans 5:13

sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.

Galatians 3:10

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, and do them.”

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

Galatians 3:19

Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained by angels through an intermediary.

John 3:36

He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.

1 John 3:4

Every one who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Ephesians 5:6

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for it is because of these things that the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

John 15:22

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Ezekiel 7:19

They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing; their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord; they cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Colossians 3:6

On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

Romans 1:17

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “He who through faith is righteous shall live.”

Lamentations 2:22

Thou didst invite as to the day of an appointed feast my terrors on every side; and on the day of the anger of the Lord none escaped or survived; those whom I dandled and reared my enemy destroyed.

Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.”

2 Kings 22:13

“Go, inquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”

Numbers 32:14

And behold, you have risen in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel!

Revelation 19:15

From his mouth issues a sharp sword with which to smite the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.