"Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, {there is} no transgression." — Romans 4:15

Romans 4:15 · KJV

“Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, {there is} no transgression.”

— Romans 4:15

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

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,

Romans 4 — Context

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.

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.

(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. {before him: or, like unto him}

Cross References

Romans 5:13

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

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.

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. {guilty...: or, subject to the judgment of God}

1 Corinthians 15:56

The sting of death {is} sin; and the strength of sin {is} the law.

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. {lust: or, concupiscence}

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.

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.

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: