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Rom. 4:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Rom. 5:20• ²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded, (Rom. 5:20)

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1 John 3:4• ⁴Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4)

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Rom. 1:17• ¹⁷for righteousness of God is revealed therein, on the principle of faith, to faith: according as it is written, But the just shall live by faith. (Rom. 1:17)

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Rom. 2:5‑6• ⁵but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
⁶who shall render to each according to his works: (Rom. 2:5‑6)

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Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 5:13,20‑21• ¹³(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;
²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,
²¹in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 5:13,20‑21)

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Rom. 7:7‑11• ⁷What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;
⁸but sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, wrought in me every lust; for without law sin was dead.
⁹But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.
¹⁰And the commandment, which was for life, was found, as to me, itself to be unto death:
¹¹for sin, getting a point of attack by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (Rom. 7:7‑11)

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Num. 32:14• ¹⁴And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a progeny of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. (Num. 32:14)

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Deut. 29:20‑28• ²⁰Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;
²¹and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
²²And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,
²³that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:
²⁴even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
²⁵And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
²⁶and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.
²⁷And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
²⁸and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it appears this day. (Deut. 29:20‑28)

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2 Kings 22:13• ¹³Go, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book which is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written there for us. (2 Kings 22:13)

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Jer. 4:8• ⁸For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us. (Jer. 4:8)

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Lam. 2:22• ²²Thou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. (Lam. 2:22)

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Ezek. 7:19• ¹⁹They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an impurity: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their belly; for it hath been the stumbling-block of their iniquity. (Ezek. 7:19)

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Zeph. 1:18• ¹⁸their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full end, yea, a sudden end, shall he make of all them that dwell in the land. (Zeph. 1:18)

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John 3:36• ³⁶He that believes on the Son has life eternal, and he that is not subject to the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him. (John 3:36)

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John 15:22• ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. (John 15:22)

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Acts 17:30‑31• ³⁰God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,
³¹because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the habitable earth in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, giving the proof of it to all in having raised him from among the dead. (Acts 17:30‑31)

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1 Cor. 15:56• ⁵⁶Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin the law; (1 Cor. 15:56)

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2 Cor. 3:7‑9• ⁷(But if the ministry of death, in letters, graven in stones, began with glory, so that the children of Israel could not fix their eyes on the face of Moses, on account of the glory of his face, a glory which is annulled;
⁸how shall not rather the ministry of the Spirit subsist in glory?
⁹For if the ministry of condemnation be glory, much rather the ministry of righteousness abounds in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7‑9)

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Gal. 3:10,19• ¹⁰For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;
¹⁹Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator. (Gal. 3:10,19)

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Eph. 5:6• ⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:6)

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Col. 3:6• ⁶On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Col. 3:6)

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1 John 3:4• ⁴Every one that practises sin practises also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4)

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Rev. 6:16‑17• ¹⁶and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and have us hidden from the face of him that sits upon the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
¹⁷because the great day of his wrath is come, and who is able to stand? (Rev. 6:16‑17)

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Rev. 19:15• ¹⁵And out of his mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he might smite the nations; and he shall shepherd them with an iron rod; and he treads the wine-press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. (Rev. 19:15)

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Rom. 2:12‑13• ¹²For as many as have sinned without law shall perish also without law; and as many as have sinned under law shall be judged by law,
¹³(for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. (Rom. 2:12‑13)

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Rom. 5:13• ¹³(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law; (Rom. 5:13)

• Observe, he does not say there is no sin; but where there is no commandment, there is none to violate. Now, the law being given to a sinner, wrath is necessarily the consequence of its imposition. (“Romans 4” by J.N. Darby)

• Paul then speaks of what the Law does when it is not kept. He says, "The Law worketh wrath" (“The Righteousness of Faith: Romans 4” by B. Anstey)

• The Law only increased a person's guilt, by showing men their true sinfulness. (“The Righteousness of Faith: Romans 4” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For lawb works wrath; but where no law is neither is there transgression.

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Or "For the law."

W. Kelly Translation

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For the law worketh out wrath; but where no law is, [there is] no transgression.